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TIL there is a U.S. Military Cemetery where the “Dishonoured Dead” are buried.

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OGZE1 TIL about 'Sexual Parasitism' in Anglerfish, where the male dwarf fish bites an adult female, latches on, fusing its tissues to the female host to eventually share one circulatory system. The male eventually withers away, and all that is left is its testes.
X06rE Today I learned that cigarettes and gasoline were used as forms of commodity money in Europe in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
P1lwO TIL that those who systematically take naps had a 37% lower coronary mortality.
BgK7e TIL the only animal considered to display true tripedalism (moving using 3 limbs) is the parrot. Specifically, their head is considered their third limb while climbing
pndp TIL when the world’s largest diamond was discovered in South Africa, it was shipped to England on a steamboat under heavy security. But it was a diversion, and the real stone was sent in a plain box via post.