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TIL that powerful jets of high-energy particles created by supermassive black holes must be pointed at Earth to be called a Blazar

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8aRva TIL A bank robber hired decoys on Craigslist and escaped down a creek on a Inner tube
YpEoP TIL the seeds of the Abrus precatorius plant contain the toxin abrin. Abrin is fatal at just 1/75 the dose of ricin. Abrin has an LD50 of 0.56 μg/kg in mice, and Kingsbury lists a toxic dose in humans at 0.00015% body weight, or approximately 0.1 mg for a 150 lb human. One chewed seed can be fatal.
b9959 TIL in 2009 Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray starred in a rap song called ‘Autograph’
p8P6p TIL The French government bombed and sunk a Greenpeace ship while it was harboured at Auckland, New Zealand. A photographer was killed, and two French agents were apprehended.
XE4PR TIL The African Lungfish has the ability to survive outside of water for up to a year.