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TIL: A species of mouse howls at the moon and eats scorpions!

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gM16X TIL that the sub USS Archerfish was credited with only one sinking during WW2, the Japanese supercarrier Shinano. This remains the largest ship ever sunk by a sub, and measured by tonnage the most successful US patrol of the war.
OGZlY TIL that ​​the very first technical publication by famed Computer Scientist Donald Knuth ​​was the "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures​". It measured Volume in ​'ngogn​', mass in ​'blintz', and time in ​units of 'clarke'​. It was published in of Mad Magazine in 1957, and earned him $25.
yQ46V TIL that the skeletal remains of Josef Mengele are being used to teach forensics to medical students
OoVOX TIL that Osama Bin Laden had the "Charlie Bit My Finger" video in his computer's audio/visual collection
woOX1 TIL Water can exist in three states at once, The triple point is when a substance exists as a solid, liquid, and gas simultaneously due to a specific temperature and pressure. It varies for different materials, with water's triple point being slightly above freezing and 0.006 atm.