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TIL komodo dragons sometimes force prey down their throat by ramming a tree

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GRm5 TIL it is possible for a person to walk between any two points in the Pentagon in less than seven minutes.
Wr7Y TIL that former US president James A. Garfield knew both Ancient Greek and Latin. Along with being ambidextrous, he could write in both languages at the same time.
oV1r TIL Neither Stalin nor Hitler have the title of worst genocide ever. Mao Zedong, of China, killed an estimated 63 million
awaJy TIL in 1992, a couple donated their egg and sperm to a local hospital. In 2020, that frozen embryo was finally implanted into a woman which which resulted in the successful birth of the world's first '27-year-old' baby.
NXmP8 TIL in 1945 a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building between the 78th & 80th floors, which killed 14 people and injured 26 others. Although on a normal workday, as many as 15,000 people worked in the skyscraper, but the crash happened to occur on a Saturday with only 1,500 present.