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TIL of Freddie Oversteegen, a girl with the Dutch Resistance who would seduce nazis and lead them into the woods where they would be killed

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D1kPV TIL about the Bermuda Triangle of the Pacific, the century-old Dragon's Triangle (or the Devil's Sea). It is located near Japan and known for similar "paranormal" properties and unexplained instances of disappearing ships.
Y5JG TIL: The antechinus, a mouse-like animal, has so much sex that it disintegrates. They are known as semelparous, meaning that sex is a once-in-a-lifetime affair that is usually fatal.
rNAww TIL the brain-body mass ratio is thought to be a rough estimate of the intelligence of an animal, and that the bony-eared assfish has the smallest brain-body mass ratio of all vertebrates.
p8KeN TIL of Charles Fraser-Smith (one of the inspirations behind 'Q' in the James Bond movies) designed a special left-hand thread for the disguised screw-off top of a hidden-document container; he thought that "no German would ever think of trying to unscrew something the wrong way."
9wDKD TIL about Wang Enlin, a Chinese farmer who self-taught law to sue a chemical company for polluting his village—and won.