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TIL the only animal large enough to eat avocados and spread its seed was the ground sloth

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JYEV1 TIL that mascara got its start with coal dust and vaseline. In the early 1900's, Thomas Lyle Williams noticed his sister Mabel applying a substance after a cooking accident singed her eyebrows and lashes. In her "original formula," Mabel burned a cork and mixed the ashes with Vaseline.
ZpKKo TIL: All birds have extra eyelids
M46b TIL: In 2001 the DEA (drug enforcement agency) tried to ban glow sticks and pacifiers because they considered them “drug paraphernalia”
ADKxa TIL that there are good reasons to support the claim that humanity is effectively extinction proof. The main reason being the advent of farming, some 10,000 years ago.
Vglp TIL the Croatian fascist group, the Ustaše, butchered hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Croats and Jews with primitive weapons, such as having little children impaled, cutting off women’s breasts, sawing off noses and ears and burned alive. Their crimes even horrified the Nazis.