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TIL the assassin bug wears its victims’ corpses as armor

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PaDL TIL that if actor Randy Quaid steps foot on American soil again, he will be arrested and prosecuted.
D1yRg TIL that Mountain Lions, Cougars, and Pumas are nearly the exact same animal. The differences between them are similar to the differences between house cats rather than type of cat.
oBG9A TIL Ålesund, Norway burned down in 1904 and Kaiser Wilhelm II. sent 4 warships to build shelters and barracks, giving refuge to around 10,000 people, and rebuilding the city in record time
6o8X TIL that China has a giant ghost town, Tianducheng, built to be a near-exact Replica of Paris complete with a mock-up of Versailles and a copy of The Eiffel Tower. Now only 2,000 people live there.
oLy8 TIL: A half-Jewish man was used in Nazi recruitment posters and dubbed as “The Ideal German Soldier”, before being kicked out for being too Jewish.