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TIL using Teflon and other non-stick cookware can kill birds. After new pans are heated for the first time, birds can die within a matter of hours.

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Bgbwd TIL that in 1994, 62 children in Zimbabwe claimed they saw a UFO land near their school, with aliens telepathically warning them about environmental destruction. Some still stand by their story today.
wvXJ TIL that Alexander Fleming predicted the rise antibiotic resistance in his 1945 Nobel Prize speech
WkKoo TIL that there is another kind of Panda that is brown and super rare. It’s a subspecies of the giant panda and only inhabits in Qinling Mountains of China.
jNbKp TIL: Jaywalking was made a crime, primarily due to car makers wanting to shift blame of accidents to pedestrians, instead of drivers. This was done to help prevent the image of the car as being a dangerous luxury, which would have hurt sales.
4kaG6 TIL in 1923, jockey Frank Hayes suffered a heart attack while in a horse race, but became the only known example of a dead man winning a horse race.