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TIL Astronauts have specialised survival knives in case they crash land off course

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wojlM TIL that peacocks, specifically the male peafowl, are capable of flight, but their flying abilities are limited compared to many other bird species.
d8Vr7 TIL a French woman, Marie Belmont-Gobert, hid a British soldier in a cramped cupboard in her house from Jan 1915 to the end of WWI in 1918, despite German officers living in her home and socialising in the room the cupboard was in. She received an OBE post-war. Cupboard is in museum in U.K.
Wkk8d TIL that the FBI classified an MIT doctoral candidate's research on animal rights as a threat to national security
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