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TIL 6 of the 20 Salem Witch Trials victims were men.

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VMA8G TIL Cristeta Cromerford has been the Executive Chef of the White House since 2005. She is the first woman and first person of Asian descent to hold the post.
ZYKG TIL that in 1730,when pirate Olivier Levasseur was hanged he threw a coded message into the crowd. He shouted “Find my treasure,he who may understand it! The treasure remains lost.
Y7mEP TIL we can eat some species of jellyfish.
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LQ6Gm TIL that the avian magnetic compass of the European Robin has been extensively researched and uses vision-based magnetoreception, in which the Robin's ability to sense the magnetic field of the earth for navigation is affected by the light entering the bird's eye.