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TIL Raccoons can figure out how to open several complex locks in less than 10 tries, and they can remember solutions to tasks for up to 3 years.

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mkJM TIL Thatcher supposedly threatened to nuke Argentina over the Falklands if the French president didn’t hand over the disabling codes for the French-made Argentinian missiles.
mxWkR TIL Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Kale, Broccoli, Cauliflour, and Kohlrabi are all selectively bred varieties of the same plant. They were each developed from the wild mustard plant.
RRm6 TIl that more Falklands veterans have committed suicide since the war than were killed during it.
v1wAL TIL that there was a persistent myth that a race of pygmy humans lived in Tennessee. In reality, these were normal bones of Native Americans secondarily buried in short stone coffins.
lbaV TIL comedian Louis CK’s first language is Spanish as he grew up in Mexico. He jokes that he is an “accidental white person” because he doesn’t look Hispanic