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TIL the red stuff dropped from airplanes to put out forest fires also acts as a fertilizer.

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9Yw4B TIL that after Michael Jordan retired in 2003, The Miami Heat retired the number 23 jersey even though Jordan never played for the team.
wLEoM TIL Rastafarians believed Haille Selassie, then king of Ethiopia to be the second coming of Jesus. Selassie refuted this and publicly denied his immorality. Rastafarians took this as proof he was in fact Jesus. Selassie's subsequent death in 1975 resulted in a crisis of faith for many Rastafarians.
W70ad TIL a “Yellow Bellied Sapsucker” is a woodpecker not a western insult.
nono TIL that Halifax sends Boston a Christmas tree every year for their help with one of the largest non-nuclear explosions the world has witnessed.
njPG TIL of a plane crash caused by a smuggled crocodile. The crocodile freed itself and panicked the passengers who all ran towards the flight-deck, which caused the plane to be unbalanced and crash. The only survivors were one person and the crocodile.