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TIL One of the Largest moths in the world, The Atlas Moth, has no mouth in its adult form. Once it emerges from its cocoon it only has a few days to live before starving to death.

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xVE15 TIL that Bill Millin, a soldier in WWII, walked onto Normandy Beach on D-Day without a gun and began playing the bagpipes. When ordered to do so beforehand, he had pointed out that it was against British regulations, and his commander told him "You and I are both Scottish, and that doesn’t apply".
kO59m TIL of the Battle for Texel, the last european battle of World War 2.
jNJyQ TIL The "Miss Bumbum contest is a Brazilian annual pageant show which aims to find the best buttocks in the country."
OGMD7 TIL United States is called 美國 in Chinese, literally meaning "beautiful country".
gmJ9 TIL BP refused to allow clean up workers to wear respirator masks while working with toxic chemicals following the Gulf spill because they were worried about the negative PR