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TIL that the farmers of Hanyuan, China, are forced to pollinate pear trees by hand because all the bees died off.

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7r58X TIL the original Dino Crisis 3–developed by Capcom (which created the Resident Evil series)–placed players in fighting time-displaced dinosaurs rampaging across a city due to the time rifts caused by the events in Dino Crisis 2. It was scrapped in favor of a futuristic spaceship version due to 9/11.
MeMjm TIL 95% of all copper ever mined was extracted after 1900. More than half has been extracted in the last 24 years.
5nMB TIL the Pilgrims likely ate lobster, seals, and swan at the first Thanksgiving
R7ar7 TIL in 1962 a bear was ejected from a B-58 jet bomber at 870 mph to test whether humans could survive supersonic ejections. The bear then floated down via parachute from 35,000 feet over the course of 7 minutes, where it landed unharmed.
yyEM TIL that the first Canadian casualties of the Afghanistan war were from an American pilot bombing a training exercise.