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TIL there's 110 million landmines still buried, across nearly 70 countries

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6kbZ TIL an undercover FBI informant who infiltrated a Mosque in Irvine, Calif., stirred the pot so much to entrap other Muslims to engage in “violent jihad” that he was reported to law enforcement himself by the Mosque.
R7nLw TIL that despite taking around 10 years to gain enough energy to bloom, during a period of 2016, dozens of Amorphophallus Titanum plants all bloomed within a few weeks of one another.
grrY7 TIL that the Latin word for sheath/scabbard is “vagina.” So whoever came up with the English word for “vagina” was making a dick joke about sheathing a sword.
x6PD5 TIL Jasper the Bear, beloved mascot of Jasper National Park in Canada, was the star of a very popular comic strip that ran from 1948 - 1972.
9e8m TIL Helen Keller was a radical socialist. After she expressed her socialist beliefs, news columnists who had once praised her then dismissed her stances based on her disabilities.