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TIL that in January 2009, an Al-Qaeda training camp in Algeria was reportedly wiped out by the plague.

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awNXL TIL there is a town in the US state of Maine that is just called "E"
mKop TIL that monarch butterflies seem to remember an ancient mountain that used to stand where Lake Superior is now, and they still veer around that long-gone obstacle during their migration flight across the lake.
epMgD TIL about Frederick Valentich, an Australian pilot who disappeared during a flight in 1978 after reporting an unidentified object following him and saying, 'It's not an aircraft.'
gr9kW TIL Toronto Maple Leafs player Ryan Reaves is the great-great-great grandson of famous old west lawman Bass Reaves
Mevo8 TIL That a French author proposed cats be genetically engineered to change color in the presence of dangerous levels of radiation, and that a mythology be reinforced in culture to ward people from places where cats exhibit this behavior.