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TIL humans have been eating pistachios for approximately 8,750 years.

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4X8a6 TIL in 1986, 12 members of a Florida jury got stuck in the courthouse elevator for 20 minutes. The jurors were hearing a case against the Otis elevator company.
xVP6o TIL paleontologists found a 99-million year old tick entombed in amber and grasping the feather of a dinosaur
E1odd TIL any adult canadian can send cannabis thru canada post up to 28 grams to another canadian adult anywhere in canada
vpy8 TIL the French, under Napoleon III, tried taking over Mexico to use it as a base to help the Confederate States win the Civil War. They failed and a year later Mexico celebrated “Cinco de Mayo” for the first time.
woOW8 TIL about the Gombe Chimpanzee War, also known as the Four-Year War, which was a violent conflict between two communities of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in the Kigoma region of Tanzania between 1974 and 1978.