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TIL one In Four Animals Known To Science Is A Beetle

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4XVWo TIL scientists have unexpectedly found that the bacterium Colwellia psychrerythraea, an extremophile, can survive at -196 Celsius degrees, the temperature of liquid nitrogen. They're not sure how this is possible.
16M9V TIL of the submarine USS Tang. It was hit when it's own torpedo boomeranged. 89 crew with 29 trapped. 13 made it out through a hatch but only 9 made to the surface where they were picked up by the Japanese and taken to a POW camp. They survived the war.
R7xJ8 TIL USA first lady Dolley Madison served ice cream in the White House around the 1810s. Her favorite flavor to serve was Oyster flavored ice cream
8xQb TIL that Malcom X had a Scottish grandmother and the reddish hair he inherited from her inspired the nickname “Detroit Red.”
E1lp TIL that Mark Calaway aka The Undertaker established The Zeus Compton Calaway Save the Animals fund to help pay for lifesaving treatments for large-breed dogs.