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TIL the list of ingredients of a Twinkie includes beef fat

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P11Zw TIL about Rattlesnake Kate, a Colorado resident who killed 140 of the serpents with a metal signpost in a single battle & later learned to collect venom to save lives. Her snake dress is on display in Greeley (where Al-Qaeda got its roots.. that's a different TIL)
N7AbM TIL: Boxxy does voice acting and even helped make an RPG, BoxxyQuest: The gathering storm!
rR9Yy TIL that in 1899 the last surviving native Tasmanian recorded a song, the only record of her vanished language
K8Ma TIL: During the Great Potato Famine, the Ottoman Empire sent ships full of food, were turned away by the British, and then snuck into Dublin illegally to provide aid to the starving Irish.
LQlVZ TIL: "Jumbo" was a male African bush elephant who was an attraction for PT Barnum. He was hit by a train in St. Thomas, Ontario and died. He was not named Jumbo because of his size; we got the word "jumbo" because of his name.