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TIL Circus Peanuts are Banana Flavored

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BgVAL TIL I learned that there is only a single ICAO airport code starting with the letter "J". It is JZRO for Jezero Crater on Mars.
7rjPr TIL after executing the royal Romanov family the Cheka gathered up distant relatives and threw them down the same mine shaft they put the royal family. Many people didn't die so they used grenades to finish them off. When that didn't work they put brushwood down the shaft and lit it on fire.
Pkle TIL that panthers are not a real species, they are jaguars and leopards who have melanism, which is the opposite of albinism.
xG8w TIL- The largest family to survive Auschwitz intact also had more Dwarfs than any other family ever recorded. Josef Mengele arranged for them to have special living quarters since Dwarfs were so hard to find for his experiments.
4Xa86 TIL that an “Antmill” «is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, which are blind, are separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. The ants will eventually die of exhaustion.»