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TIL Divers are teaching other fish to eat the invasive lionfish.

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xwo0 TIL that that an English journalist threw England into a moral panic about child prostitution and singularly got Parliament to raise the age of consent to 16
xPwb TIL A species of snail with a metallic armour of iron has been discovered living on the bases of a hydrothermal vent field in the Indian Ocean. Only living creature to have ax exoskeleton re-enforced with metal.
R7rG4 TIL about the Hunger Plan developed by Nazi Germany during World War II, which entailed the death by starvation of about 30 millions of "racially inferior" Slavs following the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union. It led to the starvation of over 4 million citizens of the USSR between 1941-44.
awd9b TIL about the Chicken Gun, a compressed-air cannon used to fire dead chickens at aircraft components in order to simulate high-speed bird strikes during the aircraft's flight.
4ydJ TIL that for the last 17 months of Woodrow Wilson’s Presidency his wife Edith handled all official communication with her husband after a stroke left him bed ridden. Edith Wilson is now considered by some historians to be America’s first female President.