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TIL There are no hummingbirds in Hawaii and never will be thanks to pineapples

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5VAvR TIL Fish Eggs Survive Digestion by Ducks, Leading to New Fish Populations in Remote Waters
GAep5 TIL that in 1958, the U.S. government accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a family's backyard in Mars Bluff, South Carolina. The bomb’s nuclear core was not installed, so it didn’t cause a nuclear explosion, but the conventional explosives detonated, leaving a massive crater and damaging the home
b1l4 TIL of ‘Genie’, a child who was kept in a blacked out room by her father for the first 13 years of her life
jrXN TIL the Soviets gave the offspring of one of their space dogs to JFK’s daughter Caroline during the Cold War in 1961, which went on to have pups with an American dog that JFK jokingly dubbed ‘pupniks’
0wOnA TIL The infamous scene, in Mel Gibson's film "the Patriot" depicting the herding noncombatant men, women and children into a church, and setting it on fire is based on the SS massacre of French villagers in Oradour-Sur-Glane in 1944. Nothing like this ever happened in the American Revolution.