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TIL that to attract jaguars to camera traps, field biologists have used the cologne ‘Calvin Klein’s Obssession for Men’. It is believed that the civetone in the cologne resembles a territorial marking.

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grwa4 TIL 20 years ago, William Shatner released his 2nd musical album "HAS BEEN." Produced & arranged by Ben Folds, featuring collaborations with recording artists Aimee Mann, Joe Jackson, Henry Rollins, Adrian Belew, Lemon Jelly, and Brad Paisley. It has been called "one of the 10 best albums of 2004."
vjvB TIL That Archimedes developed an anti-ship weapon called the Claw of Archimedes. It lifted a ship by the prow then dropped it, often causing the vessel to capsize or at least severely damaging it.
VMYy8 TIL that Dorothy Eady believed she was the reincarnated lover of Seti I. She was a successful and respected Egyptologist, who predicted the location of an ancient garden before it was excavated.
780PM TIL that, from 1935, the SS-managed Lebensborn foundation managed a network of maternity homes for unmarried mothers and orphanages for kidnapped children in order to further the Aryan race
m1nPo TIL that Portugal once had a dead queen declared as ruler. In the 14th century, after the death of Inês de Castro, King Pedro I posthumously declared her queen and had her crowned, insisting that courtiers pay homage to her corpse at her coronation.