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TIL wasps have facial recognition skills on par with humans.

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OoZvL TIL about the Rosenstrasse Protest, where Non-Jewish wives and relatives of Jewish men protested Nazi Germany's policy of deportation of Jewish men. It was the only mass public demonstration by Germans during the Third Reich.
0OwM TIL that Leland Yee, the Senator who fought to ban the sale of violent video games to minors, was arrested for attempting to traffic illegal weapons, including “shoulder-launched missiles”
aw48M TIL that singer Helen Kane sued Fleischer Studios for basing Betty Boop's singing style on her and demanded royalties. She lost because Fleischer lawyers proved that Kane stole the style from African American singer Esther Jones.
rpQ0 TIL that the Battle of the Persian Gate was an almost exact role reversal of the Battle of Thermopylae. A small group of perhaps 300 Persians held Alexander’s army at a checkpoint. After killing legions of Alexander’s men, they were ultimately surrounded and slaughtered.
awpGJ TIL that actor Errol Flynn had such massive genital warts upon his death that Vancouver's chief pathologist removed them and soaked them in formaldehyde to allow medical students to research them. When the city's coroner heard this, he immediately scotch taped Flynn's warts back onto to his penis.