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TIL NASA has their own SWAT Team

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a8prL TIL that squirrels chew up rattlesnake skin and smear it on their fur to mask their scent from predators
OG5vR TIL about he Hairy Frog, also known as the Wolverine Frog. When threatened, it breaks it's own toe bones so that the sharp ends stick out of it's toes like the X-men's Wolverines claws. The toe bones eventually retract and grow back in place as the tissue heals over the hole.
ADk8d TIL Issei Sagawa, a Japanese man who murdered and cannibalized a Dutch woman in 1981, has been a free man since 1986 due to loopholes involving insanity. Sagawa walks the streets and plans to eat again.
Eg9nP TIL: Slaves made up 65% of South Carolina's population in 1720.
5VM4D TIL a classmate of Anne Frank, Theo Coster (Morris Simon, 1928-2019), founded with his wife Ora (1931-2021) a game design company which invented popular games such as Guess Who?, Zingo! and the breast-inspired Pop-It fidget toy. Their headstones were made to resemble the Guess Who? flip-up frames.