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TIL no species of cat can both purr and roar

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vLB7 TIL that “only” 20 people have been boiled alive in Yellowstone National Park.
16a08 TIL the world's supply of Brazil nuts comes almost exclusively from wild trees. Brazil nut trees can't be farmed effectively because the complex symbiotic relationships it depends on for pollination are too difficult to replicate.
1bl4 TIL Hershey’s gets their cocoa beans from farms that use child labor and slavery, something that they know and are doing little to change.
9lW6 TIL the web-slinging and stunts in The Amazing Spider-Man were done with real wires and stuntmen, as opposed to the CGI in the original trilogy.
lPxV TIL New Zealand is part of a 93% submerged continent known as Zealandia.