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

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XvrQ TIL that in 1968, a bomber carrying 4 nuclear weapons crashed over an icy bay in Greenland. The recovered debris only accounted for 3 out of the 4 weapons, and searches for the missing bomb under the ice were unsuccessful.
J8K1 TIL That legendary lover Casanova enacted revenge on a Soho courtesan who spurned him by teaching a parrot to say “Miss Charpillon is more of a whore than her mother” and putting it on sale at the Royal Exchange in the City.
XNbE TIL the SR-71 BlackBird traveled from New York to London in under 2 hours
Oobjg TIL that Bob Marley’s father was not actually a captain or heroic war icon, but instead was described as “neurotic (and) incontinent.” He likely worked in laundry or lavatory cleaning before joining the British MP in Lagos, Nigeria.
GAN9G TIL that a "Munro" is any mountain in Scotland with a height of over 3,000 ft, while a "Marilyn" is any hill or mountain in the British Isles with a prominence of over 150 metres.