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TIL Stalin wasn’t Russian (and Hitler wasn’t German)

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v1eoL TIL that hermit crabs sometimes form a line from biggest to smallest. When the biggest crab upgrades to a bigger shell each crab then swaps shells until every crab has upgraded.
oBrJY TIL that atrazine, the most commonly detected pesticide contaminating drinking water in the United States, has been tentatively shown to turn male frogs sterile and, in about 10% of cases, into females.
nanB TIL that in 1944, in effort to raise money for the war, The Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees and New York Giants all played a Three way game against each other. The final score was Dodgers - 5, Yankees - 1 and Giants - 0. It also ended up raising $56.5 million dollars in war bonds.
GRGJ TIL the first chairman of the 9/11 Commission was Henry Kissinger. One of the family members of the victims of 9/11 asked Kissinger if he “had any clients by the name of bin Laden.” Kissinger resigned soon after that.
lo9Ka TIL the queen parrotfish sleeps inside of a protective mucus bubble secreted from its mouth, presumably for hiding its scent from predators at night. The mucus bubble may also serve as an early warning system in the event that a predator, like a moray eel, tries to attack the resting parrotfish.