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TIL in 1942 Disney made a cartoon about donating bacon grease to help win the war

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78BNX TIL scientists discovered a new kind of orchard bee and named it Euglossa Bazinga, after The Big Bang Theory
8a7nX TIL - There’s a tree whose fruit naturally explodes, shooting its seeds up to 100m away.
b6mw4 TIL: Supercomputers know how to solve EVERY chess ending that has seven pieces or fewer remaining, regardless of position, makeup of the remaining pieces, or possible moves. This information, known as endgame tablebase, is currently 18.4 terabytes in size.
Wko0A TIL: Jim Lovell, a carrier-based pilot facing instrument failure, used the luminescent wake of the aircraft carrier to locate the ship. He would later command the Apollo 13 mission.
7XMP TIL in 2017 Pueblo County will become the first governmental body in the world to offer college scholarships to their best students, fully paid for by marijuana taxes.