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TIL that there is a shotgun shell specifically designed to plant flowers

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X0gDE TIL over one million mummified animals have been found in Egypt. (Mostly cats, of course.)
jePR TIL that all citizens of France are automatically also citizens of Scotland
WkEvd TIL Bryan Cranston, at the age of 12, encountered a young Charles Manson while riding horses with his teenage cousin. This happened about a year before Manson committed the Tate-LaBianca murders.
oXGE TIL of Whataboutism, a propaganda tactic used in the Soviet Union to discredit critics. When a criticism was posed, they would respond with “What about ____”, followed by a bad event from the west in the past.
JYB0l TIL that the word "ninja" is actually pronounced "shinobi" in the native kun'yomi kanji reading. It is a shortened form of "shinobi-no-mono," which translates closely to "stealthy person." "Ninja" is an on'yomi, a pronunciation of the names of the two Japanese letters that make up the term.