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Today I learned chicken pox doesn’t come from chickens.

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b9pgQ TIL of Black Kite 'Firehawks' which are birds that deliberately spread fires in Australia by carrying burning twigs in their beaks and talons and dropping them in other areas in order to start new fires and drive out insects and small animals so they can feed on them.
l7pJB TIL: You can only bring five speficic fruits on a plane to the EU - Coconuts, Durians, Pineapples, Dates and Bananas
AJJ7 TIL that during late WW2, the Nazis designed a plane named the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. It flew so fast that it was untouchable by enemies, but it went so fast that its own pilots weren’t capable of shooting enemy aircrafts before their plane flew past their adversaries.
VMxQ4 TIL: Steve Jobs was infamous for parking his Mercedes in handicapped parking spots. He also didn’t use license plates.
KO5EG TIL that ancient Babylon had suburbs. A 539 B.C cuneiform clay tablet stating: "Our property seems to me the most beautiful in the world. It is so close to Babylon that we enjoy all the advantages of the city, and yet when we come home we are away from the noise and dust"