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TIL if you microwave a sliced grape, it can explode in a fireball of super-heated plasma.

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N7r4E TIL that the scientists who first discovered the platypus thought it was fake. Although indigenous Aboriginal people already knew of the creature, European scientists assumed an egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, venomous mammal had to be an elaborate hoax.
LkdrV TIL about the Sacred Band of Thebes, which was a company of 150 pairs of homosexual lovers, who were considered amongst the most elite soldiers of their time.
QNl66 TIL lobsters never stop growing, which eventually can kill them. The increasingly large exoskeleton takes too much energy to shed, and they die of exhaustion.
Vm7Q TIL Twelve female snipers of the Russian 3rd Shock Army have a combined kill count of 775 during World War II and it is estimated that in 1943 the Soviet Union had over 2000 female snipers in their military.
VBKWZ TIL the remains of 1,150 unidentified victims of the 9/11 terror attacks are kept inside the September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center in New York City