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TIL that Gregor Mendel (famous for his pea plant experiment in genetics) was taught physics and astronomy by Christian Doppler, who the Doppler effect in weather is named after, and Mendel founded the Austrian Meteorological Society.

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MeZWb TIL that caterpillars digest their entire body into a soupy liquid in their cocoon before regenerating into a butterfly from the few remaining cells.
0dgPR TIL Red Foxx, whose real last name was Sanford, worked as a dishwasher in Harlem with Malcolm Little, later known as Malcolm X
xm10 TIL Robert Emmet Odlum made a habit of jumping off bridges in the 1800’s to prove to people that they won’t die from falling, as it was commonly thought that one would not be able to breathe as they fell through the air.
MPn0 TIL - from 1961 to 1993, the only non-Navy man to become president was Ronald Reagan.
QNL7p TIL, Mao Zedong’s oldest son, Mao Anying, was killed during the Korean War