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TIL in 1955, Jack Graham placed a bomb in his mother's suitcase in order to collect on insurance he purchased moment before her flight. The blast killed her and 43 other people on the plane

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LQ7xQ Til about the french revolution (not that it happened, but WHY it dod)!
j6rJM TIL of the lituya bay mega tsunami in 1950’s Alaska. The waves reached for a time a height of over 1,700 feet tall!
Q5n9 TIL when a male honey bee has sex, its testicles explode and the bee dies
grbB7 TIL of Operation Coldfeet where two CIA operatives parachuted onto abandoned Soviet drift stations in the arctic to gather intelligence. Because they were out of reach of helicopters and ships, they were extracted using the Fulton Skyhook system—snatched off the ice by a plane without it landing.
wo4Yo TIL There are more species of Sponges (7,427) than Mammals (5,046)