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TIL Jellyfish evaporate in the sun as they’re 98% water.

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QNZke TIL of Hannie Schaft, a Dutch resistance fighter known as "the girl with the red hair" during WWII. She committed assassinations and sabotage but refused to kidnap a Nazi official's children. During her execution, she was shot and injured, challenging her killers by saying, "I shoot better."
d8nJZ TIL that every time an interaction occurs on a quantum level, the universe splits in two. It's called Schrodinger's Law.
wmxJ TIL you are about 3x more likely to be killed by lightning than by terrorism.
grmYA TIL It's possible to bring back some extinct animals. In 2016, some ecologists from UCSB advised which species should be revived to best impact Earth's ecosystems. The species that made the cut: Christmas Island pipistrelle bat, Reunion giant tortoise & Lesser stick-nest rat.
En6d TIL that, because of the horrible live-action version of Cat In the Hat, Dr. Seuss’s estate demanded that there can no longer be any live-action Dr. Seuss movies.