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TIL About the Tanuki, a fox-like animal in traditional Japanese folklore with giant magical testicles

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kJO61 TIL that at 9:55 pm every night many soldiers on both sides of WWII in Europe tuned their radios to the same station (the German-controlled Radio Belgrade) to listen to a nightly broadcast of the wistful love song "Lili Marleen", which had been virtually unknown before the war
LkYeQ TIL that while Jeff Bezos was a theoretical physics student at Princeton, he was struggling with a difficult math problem. He brings it to one of his friends, who solves it just by looking at it. After that, he realized he was not going to be a good theoretical physicist, and quitted the major.
nW79G TIL Most farm raised turkeys can't mate due to being selected for meatier breasts and need artificial insemination.
X0ZGR TIL In 1977, Ohio State University's SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial intelligence) project received a strong radio signal which appeared to be coming from the constellation Sagittarius and it lasted for 72 seconds. The signal hasn't been detected since, and it's still a mystery for the scientists.
Lkdw9 TIL that Cambridge Analytica still fully exists, operates every day, and simply changed their name to Emerdata.