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TIL squirrels will pretend to bury nuts to thwart other squirrels who want to steal the nuts they bury

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wL7aY TIL wath the Siberian Corridor was. It was a strip of steppe from Mongolia to the east of Europe, used by nomadic population in their movements from east to west. Huns, Turks and Mongols all went through there. The corridor was closed by the Russian Empire expansion toward Siberia.
bnN4 TIL that in the 60s, the US military secretly sprayed (possibly radioactive) experimental chemicals, like zinc cadmium, on thousands of residents of poor neighborhoods in St. Louis, without their knowledge or consent, to see what would happen
AOKd TIL Hugh Hefner (Founder of Playboy) collects $1,896 per month in Social Security despite receiving $290,580 a month in income.
pYZDO TIL About a power plant turbine bearing at Holtwood Hydroelectric Power Plant that has been operating maintenance free for over 100 years and rated by the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) to continue operating for another 1300 years without maintenance.
VMZjG TIL: The 'secret' nuclear missile launch code during the Cold War was '00000000'