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TIL Dynamite is pretty much just tiny algae fossils soaked in nitroglycerin

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7vp7 TIL that paintings done by elephants aren’t learned talents, but rather their trainers guiding their trunk with the brush using a sharp nail behind the ear.
xlDD TIL A 14 year old Chinese girl attempted suicide so that she could save the life of her dying father by donating her liver to him.
ngko TIL Andrew Jackson slept in a hotel the night of his inauguration because 20,000 people were turning up in the White House. His aides tried to lure the mob outside with washtubs filled orange juice and whiskey.
a8nm0 TIL. About the bearded vulture that subsists almost exclusively on bone. Approximately 70 to 90 percent of their diet is bone and they swallow bones as large as a lams femur whole.
Zp9JB TIL when David Gilmour was having trouble helping an equally frustrated Syd Barrett learn a guitar solo, Gilmour recorded the solo himself and then played it back to Barrett in reverse. Upon hearing the reversed playback Barret was instantly able to play the solo forwards