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TIL there was a Republic of Yucatán ... twice!

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9Agm TIL Pineapples contain an enzyme that breakdown proteins in your mouth. So when you eat a pineapple, it is eating you back.
R5gg9 TIL about the highest confirmed death toll from a lighting strike happened in Durunka, Egypt, 1994. When, during a thunderstorm, a lightning strike ignited three oil storage tanks and the floodwaters swept the blazing fuel into the village, killing approximately 469 people.
PYKw TIL That a gas cloud will get too close to the Black Hole in the center of our galaxy next year, and we’ll see it ripped apart.
4Wgg TIL of Pan Am Flight 121, which crashed in the Syrian desert in 1948. Gene Roddenberry (future creator of Star Trek) was the highest-ranked surviving crew member and took command of rescue and relief efforts.
PY6mw TIL Isaac Newton was so obsessed with religion and alchemy that he wrote far more words on them than he ever did about gravity or optics.