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TIL there is an all-female anti-poaching combat unit in Zimbabwe called Akashinga ("the brave ones")

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j68Av TIL that the official cause of Houdini's death on Halloween in 1926 was diffuse peritonitis; this is the result of a burst appendix. J. Gordon Whitehead's sucker punch did not cause his death because Houdini died 6 days later after the punch, and it was caused from a bacterial infection.
rRNrW TIL - During WWI, King Albert I of Belgium personally led the defense against the Germans, while the Queen served as a nurse, and their son enlisted in the infanty.
Jg7j TIL Bowhead Whales can live up to 200 years old, and a recently killed specimen still had a harpoon in its body, thought to be from 1890.
xVxG5 TIL Stanford researchers showed that mealworms can safely consume various types of plastics including toxic additive-containing plastic such as polystyrene with no ill effects. The worms can then be used as a safe, protein-rich feed supplement
9k86 TIL only 5% of U.S. workers are employed in STEM fields, yet they are responsible for more than 50% of our sustained economic expansion