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TIL Britan was the first country to use Agent Orange during the Malayan Emergency in 1952 which the US viewed as justification to use it in Vietnam

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NVOJ TIL Scientists are using cloning technology to bring extinct species back to life. According to some, we may see resurrected species within the next ten years
ANg9d TIL A Portugese Man of War is not a jellyfish; it’s a colony of thousands of individual animals called “zooids”
N7jjP TIL During an interview with Stephen Hawking, the camera operator yanked a cable causing an alarm and Hawking to slump forward. Worried they had killed him, everyone rushed over to find Hawking giggling at his own joke. The alarm was from an office computer losing power.
bdrp TIL Pregnant women in Aushwitz were told they would receive double portions of food but were sent to gas chambers instead.
KOkWR TIL that it takes 15 gallons of water to produce just 16 almonds and they rely on pesticides to grow successfully; the popularity of Almond Milk is causing environmental and sustainability problems in California where 80% of the world’s almonds are grown.