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TIL that praying mantes eat hummingbird brains:

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8po4 TIL Mister Rogers poured the wax that made the 100 billionth Crayola crayon.
p8VJG TIL during a simulated military exercise in the Persian Gulf, the opposing force wiped out the US fleet in just 2 days using low tech strategies. The rules of the exercise were subsequently changed to ensure an overwhelming US victory was the final result.
w86o TIL an iPhone Has about 240,000 times more memory than Voyager 1 which has less than 40KB.
Ypm1v TIL in spring of 1942 German U-boats terrorized east coast of US sinking fuel tankers and cargo ships with impunity and often within sight of shore and in less than 7 months destroyed 22 percent of the tanker fleet and sank 233 ships killing 5,000 ...more than 2X number who perished at Pearl Harbor.
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