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TIL that the singer Jewel’s full name is Jewel Kilcher. She is the daughter of Atz Kilcher, who stars in the Discovery Channel show Alaska: The Last Frontier.

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P11Zw TIL about Rattlesnake Kate, a Colorado resident who killed 140 of the serpents with a metal signpost in a single battle & later learned to collect venom to save lives. Her snake dress is on display in Greeley (where Al-Qaeda got its roots.. that's a different TIL)
D1JlD TIL that the Satin Dolls, the strip club that was used as the Bada Bing strip club on "The Sopranos", was shut down in 2014 due to its owner's connections to the Mafia
dDAQ TIL there is a mountain in Canada called “Unnecessary Mountain”.
r984 TIL When an insect tries to eat the leaves of a pineapple, the leaves secrete a digestive enzyme which kills the insect, and then the leaves absorbs the insect for nutrition.
Pe5E TIL in the 1970s the entire native population of an island in the Indian Ocean was forcibly removed to establish a naval base