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TIL Quentin Tarantino refuses to share his wealth with his mother because she mocked his writing aspirations growing up.

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woKW1 TIL about the "catapult-able cockpit", created by Romanian inventor Anastase Dragomir and successfully tested in 1929 at the Paris-Orly Airport, which featured a parachuted chair that was ejected from an aircraft. It was the first modern layout for an ejection seat, later perfected during WWII.
grKx9 TIL, Fermented elephant coffee, also known as Black Ivory Coffee, is a rare and expensive coffee that is made by feeding Arabica coffee cherries to elephants to ferment in their digestive systems... and collecting the Poo...
Zplko TIL Béla Kiss (1877 - ??) was a was a Hungarian serial killer who is thought to have killed at least 24 people. Kiss pickled their corpses in alcohol and sealed them in the airtight metal drums that he kept on his property.
ANwJx TIL: Unlike humans, chickens bruise a greenish color
eJr5 TIL that in 1915, a man named Charles Hatfield convinced the town of San Diego that he could create rainfall using a secret mix of chemicals. The city offered to pay him $10,000 if he could end their drought, and the result!, a few days later, was the town’s worst flood of the 20th century.