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TIL on March 1st, 1504, Christopher Columbus convinced the inhabitants of Jamaica to keep provisioning him by threatening to take away the moon.

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kODKg TIL Tag brothers are a group of 10 men who had been playing the game of tag since 1990, chasing each other around the country, traveling by plane, car etc. As of 2018, the game is still ongoing
NP6 TIL that a Pistol Shrimp can vaporize water with its claws, and for an instant that bubble is as hot as the sun - YouTube
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5VDLD TIL that horses and sheeps with horizontal pupils can rotate their eyeballs so as to keep their horizontal pupils parallel to the ground, which helps them identify predators
yQPDe TIL In January 1979, 16 year old Brenda Ann Spencer was arrested after killing a principal and a custodian at an elementary school in California. When asked why she did it, her reply was "I just don't like Mondays."