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TIL No one really knows where strawberries got their name

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5Ya5R TIL There is a River in Peru is so hot it kills anything that falls into it.
Q58d TIL that 18th century Prussian king Frederick William I was obsessed with having soldiers over 6 foot tall. He paid families for tall children, kidnapped tall men, bred them by pairing up his soldiers with tall women, and even stretched them on a rack to make them taller.
a8ANb TIL of Aeschylus who was killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle that had mistaken his bald head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell
88MV TIL there is a man who has defused over 10,000 land-mines without pay.
4kobX TIL the wildlife painter John James Audubon ate all of the birds he painted, including bald eagles, snowy owls, sparrows, robins, and whooping cranes