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TIL Young Francis Billington got ahold of his father's musket and shot it off inside, showering sparks around an open barrel of gunpowder and nearly blowing up the ship. The ships name? Mayflower

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JYpN8 TIL Early ancestors of Whales once walked on land. And that whales (and dolphins, orcas etc) evolved AFTER dinosaurs went extinct.
Z857D TIL of a cookie coffee cup insulated to drink coffee and eat the cup after
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