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TIL the herbivorous/omnivorous equivalent of a scavenger is a detritivore

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gM0x8 TIL the mafia used to control the artichoke industry in NYC, ultimately leading to Mayor LaGuardia banning the vegetable in 1930
91O6 TIL a flight attendant named Vesna Vulović survived a 33,333 ft fall when the plane she was in broke apart from a bomb explosion. She holds a Guinness World Records, for surviving the highest fall without a parachute
5Zrr TIL of the one-electron universe postulate, proposed by theoretical physicist John Wheeler. Its hypothesis is that there is only one electron in existence that is constantly moving throughout time
R5868 TIL that Mcdonalds Chicken McNuggets almost never existed. Instead the fast food giant originally tried to feed us ‘onion nuggets’.
6PgQ TIL Penn and Teller created a game called Desert Bus. The object is to drive in REALTIME from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada. There is no pause button and it needs constant steering. If you make the entire 8 hour trip, you earn one point.