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TIL that copper prevents barnacles from attaching to boats.
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TIL That Hitler was a fan of the Disney animated film The Three Little Pigs and would routinely walk around whistling the song “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf.”
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TIL the US military uses dolphins to find and identify underwater mines because they are better at it than humans.
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TIL from my wife’s Star Trek calendar that the actor James Doohan (Scotty) had a missing right middle finger, which he lost in the WWII invasion of Normandy. Careful camera work meant it was rarely visible in the TV series.
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TIL global chicken population is 24 billion
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TIL about Poncke Princen, a Dutch anti-Nazi fighter who was later sent to Indonesia to suppress an anticolonial rebellion. Princen, after witnessing Dutch war crimes, defected to fight with the guerrillas in 1948. He later helped expose the anticommunist massacres of Indonesian dictator Suharto.