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TIL the first film to use a special effect was a reenactment of the beheading of Mary, Queen of Scots

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gyKb TIL of the Greenland shark, that eats polar bears, and can live up to 500 years old.
d4G7 TIL a gay Vietnam veteran has a gravestone that omits his own name, merely saying “Gay Vietnam Veteran,” while pointing out that he received a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
vxNB TIL A Russian town was once “besieged” by hungry bears with as many as 30 bears being reported circling the small town
WkJXY TIL The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima named by it’s pilot Col Paul Tibbets, after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who was named after a character of the book, Enola; or, Her fatal mistake. With eerily prophetic passages including “He is the bird of ill omen.”
rNXbe TIL that African naked mole rat do not feel the sting of capsaicin (main component of chilies) and acids