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TIL that eels can travel over land for short distances by slithering through wet grass to reach new bodies of water.

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p8erp TIL During WWII chemists dissolved in acid large Nobel Prize medals with the engraved names of Max von Laue and James Franck to hide them from Germans. Solution of black liquid in two unmarked jars sat on a laboratory shelf. After the war the Nobel Foundation recast them and returned to the owners.
NRg8 TIL That the founder of Little Caesars Pizza paid for Rosa Parks’ rent so she could live in a safer area of Detroit from 1994 until her death.
1aam4 Ebola viruses prevent the body from mounting an immune response against them, but a new study finds that mutating just one gene makes the virus unable to suppress the immune system.
kJPa4 TIL: In the UK they are 5 types of Pedestrian Crossings: Zebra, Pelican, Puffin, Toucan and Pegasus.
VMn08 TIL that crows are as intelligent as a 7 year old child. They have an uncanny memory for human faces. They can hold grudges against some of us—and tell other crows about it, too.