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TIL over 200 species of animals self amputate limbs to escape danger

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LkwVZ TIL That the domesticated hamsters we now call pets are all descended from one “Adam and Eve” like pair captured in Aleppo, Syria in 1930.
Oo8jL TIL that a British soldier whose ship was sunk by a U-boat survived for 70 days at sea. After being rescued, he was sent back to England from the Bahamas on a cargo ship. It was hit by 2 torpedoes from a U-Boat as they were approaching the UK. There were no survivors.
R7Op8 TIL that the mountain K2 (the 2nd highest in the world) was named such as a placeholder, literally "the 2nd peak in the Karakoram mountain range". it stuck because the mountain is so remote that no one else had given it a name.
6EL9w TIL that a pregnant woman in Britain can pee anywhere she wants, even in a officer’s helmet.
7rD8M TIL the former US president has 7 species named after him in honor, and the current one has 1 primarily because of resemblance