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TIL Scientists breed goats that produce spider silk

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dLGK TIL when Tsar Nicholas II’s daughters were executed, the executioners struggled to kill them with gunshots, due to the fact that they were carrying 1.3kg of diamonds sewn into their clothing
grEY4 TIL that the US has an official plan to deal with a zombie apocalypse known as CONPLANN 8888-11.
KOxla TIL Ninepin bowling (with the pins arranged in a diamond pattern) was outlawed in Connecticut and New York during the early 1800s because it was associated with heavy gambling. This led to the addition of a tenth pin (arranged in the now-common triangular pattern) to circumvent the law.
m11nx TIL that the Nazis made butter from coal
ANW0a TIL there were still free and wild lions living in parts of Europe until the late 1800s