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TIL The origins of Jackalopes (mythical horned rabbits) were likely due to sightings of rabbits infected with Shope papilloma virus which causes keratinous horn-like growths

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p4j4 TIL a bomb went off in a commercial airliner, blowing it into several pieces and fell for 3 minutes before crashing on a frozen mountain top. One woman survied and now holds the Guinness World Record for the highest fall survived without a parachute, at 33,330 feet.
JYPYV TIL Tom Hanks has been gifting the White House press corps with new coffee machines since 2004 after visiting and finding an old decrepit Mr. Coffee machine serving really bad coffee. Latest was a $1700 espresso machine in 2017.
EGoP TIL there is a species of fish that lives on land all its adult life
4eNN Louis Louis Réard a.k.a the inventor of the modern bikini declared that it wasn’t a real bikini unless it could be “pulled through a wedding ring” and after its modern debut was banned in Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Australia, and declared a sin by the Vatican.
5Yn6B TIL you'll be executed if you watch porn in North Korea.