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TIL humans are the cause of an ongoing mass extinction event known as the Holocene Extinction

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9Y4P6 TIL Pringles are technically not potato chips, they are molded out of powdered potato, wheat, and other additives
DEve TIL that when the UK declared war on Japan after being attacked in 1941, Winston Churchill notified the Japanese government with a politely written letter. He said later, “Some people did not like this ceremonial style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”
a8QWZ TIL when the UN's Nordic Battalion was sent to Bosnia in 1993 it disobeyed orders, broke rules of engagement, faked loss of communication to HQ, and became known as one the most trigger-happy peacekeeper units. This enabled them to achieve their mission objective: to protect civilians at all cost.
JP6B TIL that although they are unable to produce chlorophyll Albino Redwood trees can survive, this is because the albino trees are able fuse their roots with the roots of other Redwood and live as parasites, there are only 61 known examples of this.
BgEvL TIL Hippopotamus Milk is Pink and Acts as Natural Sunscreen