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TIL the cause of death of the Challenger astronauts is unknown

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RMA6 TIL The Dutch East India Company was the most valuable company ever in world history. With a value of 78 million Dutch Guilders, adjusted to 2012 dollars it was worth $7.4 trillion.
KORB6 TIL pineapples are actually in a proto-carnivorous plant family called bromeliads. Water trapped in their crowns supports thriving mini-ecosystems, whose residents and their droppings are absorbed for nutrients (not energy) through their leaves, as most plants can actually do.
R7r6 TIL in 1914, a 19yo British boy was court martialed for desertion. He was undefended and called no witnesses, as all of his comrades had been killed in action. He was hastily sentenced, and on September 8th became the first WWI soldier to be executed for desertion. He was finally pardoned in 2006.
1lK7 TIL that a man is serving a 20-year prison sentence for firing a warning shot with a legally registered firearm to protect his wife and daughters.
05Dv TIL that Argentina has almost 1m people of Irish decent and Che Guevara came from an Irish family.