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TIL Workers who cut up pineapples eventually lose their fingerprints due to the action of the proteolytic enzyme, bromelain, that dissolves them.

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6EJZm TIL about the YONSHAKUDAMA, the world’s largest firework weighing in at 420 KG. It is fired every year in Japan.
EwD0 TIL of Lyuba, the most well preserved Wooly Mammoth in the world. He skin and organs are in perfect condition, and scientists found her mother’s milk in her stomach, along with feces in her intestines.
erl5 TIL that in 2003 a BBC news team was bombed by US fighter jets in a “friendly fire” incident, the entire ordeal was caught on camera (warning: some disturbing images)
yQLyJ TiL: That the first well documented and public case of Alina Abduction, “The abduction of Betty and Barney Hill”, took place right near me in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
7mmM TIL the debut episode for Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner was called: Fast and Furry-ous