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TIL there is a population of radioactive wild boars in Germany, caused by Chernobyl disaster two decades ago. And their number is rising.

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yrnl TIL we’re closer to the time period the Jetson’s lived in (2062) then the year the show was created (1962).
nv5r TIL: The duck billed platypuses hunts with it’s eyes and nose closed. It instead uses it’s bill to detect the electrical fields that it’s prey produces through muscle movement.
nWrRG TIL about the "hand of glory" made from the hand of a hanged man. Europeans once made candles from the fat of the corpse of a criminal and placed it in the hand of glory, believing it would render motionless all persons to whom it was presented
mxQYE TIL that the former Secretary General of the UN and later President of Austria, Kurt Waldheim, was an accused Nazi who as President was put on a Watch List by the US as an 'potential undesirable'
OK4R TIL: White, green, oolong, and black teas come from the leaves of the same tea plant species.