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TIL Brighamia insignis, a species of Hawaiian lobelioid now requires hand pollination to reproduce because the only pollinator, a type of hawk moth, went extinct

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XEGL8 TIL The Guinness official recently awarded Guinness World Records Certificate to YouTube ’s oldest game YouTuber. The old lady from Japan is named Hamako Mori. The grandmother has been playing games for 39 years.
kJwNe TIL Hong Kong was attacked by Japan the same day as their attack on Pearl Harbor.
6968w TIL During the 19th century, Armand David was the first westerner to 'discover' the Giant Panda, which he believed to be a "new species". In the course of his explorations, Père David sent back to Paris specimens of 63 previously unknown animals and 65 birds.
9Y55Q TIL of the Pequot War (1636-1638), now considered a genocide by historians. English settlers led a campaign against the Pequot tribe, culminating with the Mystic massacre, when Pequot women and children were set on fire. Afterwards, Connecticut was formed and the word "Pequot" was banned.
1B8V TIL Allen Swift received a 1928 Rolls-Royce Piccadilly Phantom I new and maintained it meticulously before dying in 2005 as the oldest living person to own a car from new.