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TIL that it takes four or five generations of monarch butterflies to complete the annual migration from Mexico to northern USA/Canada in the spring but in the fall a single "super generation" completes the entire 3,000 mile journey.

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8evK TIL the story of Catalina de Frauso, a Basque Nun who escaped her nunnery at the age of 15 in 1599 and became a cross dressing Spanish soldier who traveled the New World. She even coincidentally killed her brother in a duel and flirted with other women.
dDRPE TIL about Russell King, a convicted fraudster who claimed to be the wealth manager for the Bahraini royal family. He used this entirely fabricated connection to steal a soccer club, half an investment bank, and the mining rights to all the gold in North Korea
KYvv4 TIL that 2 MK 45 nuclear torpedos, each with a W34 11 kiloton nuclear warhead, are on the ocean floor with the remains of the USS Scorpion nuclear-powered submarine, which sank in 1968.
8p8 TIL In 1980, a brutal riot took place at the New Mexico State Penitentiary. At one point, the rioters broke into the isolated prisoners cellblock (containing sex criminals, mentally unstable, prison snitches, etc.) where they brutally tortured and killed at least 33 prisoners.
1RVD TIL due to the popularity of the Beatles song, “Penny Lane” street signs in Liverpool were so often stolen, local authorities got tired of replacing them and began painting the street’s name onto the sides of buildings.