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TIL The calcium in out bones and the iron in our blood come from ancient explosions of giant stars.

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QJ4bd TIL that on April Fool's Day in 1974, a man in Alaska pranked an entire town by setting a bunch of tiles alight in a dormant volcano, creating a smoke plume that caused a lot of commotion and ended up with a US Coast Guard helicopter being sent to investigate.
D1LVP TIL that the Philippine's crime rate dropped to a near zero during the Pacquiao vs Mayweather boxing match
LQ5Nv TIL in the 1970s, musician Gordon Sumner of Wallsend, England, had a habit of wearing a black and yellow jumper with hooped stripes when playing with a jazz band in northern England. The bandleader thought it made him look like a bee or a wasp, prompting the nickname "Sting".
Zpmjp TIL that as a result of mass tomato shortage but mass banana production, Philippines tried to make ketchup with banana, and eventually banana ketchup becomes a national signature condiment
9wbJX TIL that the pomelo, the largest citrus fruit, is an ancestor of several cultivated citrus species, including the bitter orange and the grapefruit.