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TIL a group of pandas is called an embarrassment. Seriously.

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KO569 TIL of the Delphi Murders, where two young girls were murdered after posting a photo of the alleged killer on snapchat following them on a bridge in a wooded area. He has still yet to be found.
vP6Zx TIL that People in Vanuatu use certain plants, called "calendar plants," to indicate changes in the seasons and cues for certain activities such as farming, fishing, and hunting. For example, when Melanthera biflora flowers, local people know that sea turtles are very fat and ready to be hunted.
6Vml TIL: The first food to be cooked deliberately in a microwave was popcorn, and the second was an egg, which exploded in the face of one of the experimenters.
ADdm7 TIL that the heavy metal band Black Sabbath originally started wearing crosses to ward off a curse. After denying an offer to play at Stonehenge, the satanists hosting the event claimed to cast a curse on the band.
QN7Oa TIL a team of student volunteers on an archaeological dig at a site in northern France discovered a 200-year-old note left by an archaeologist who had performed an excavation of the site in 1825.