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TIL people didn’t know TNT was explosive for 28 years and used it as yellow dye instead

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pYwxZ TIL that in 1940, after the fall of France during WW2, the British Royal Navy attacked and destroyed, neutralized or captured the largest ships in the French naval fleet in order to ensure they would not fall into German hands.
wlo7 TIL most bamboo species only flower once every several decades, with the entire population flowering at once. When one variety flowers, the entire variety flowers at the same time around the world, regardless of location, climate, or any other factors for reasons scientists have yet to discern.
N7EVN TIL about an erotic fetish called vorarephilla. Which is a desire to get swallowed by somebody whole or to swallow somebody or something.
x6JbB TIL that Mary Edwards Walker, the only female recipient of the Medal of Honor, was a surgeon, abolitionist, prisoner of war and freethinker who challenged traditional gender roles. She was also a pioneer in a Victorian dress reform movement called "rational dress" as seen in photographs of the time
bp17 TIL: Ohio shames drivers convicted of a DUI with special yellow license plates