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TIL that hammerhead sharks can reproduce asexually, one of the few animals to have that ability

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WZr9 TIL: In WWII Germany developed a missile that could hit the US that was manually piloted and suicidal.
l7lWK TIL that the Ohio River at Cincinnati has been as shallow as ~ 2 feet, in 1881, and has a record crest of 80 feet, in 1937.
VMLgD TIL - A network of men and women working in the legal system have created something called "The Innocence Project" which to date has exonerated 364 innocent people serving sentences for violent crimes with punishments ranging from death to life without parole.
9wLVB TIL that during breastfeeding, a baby's saliva can flow back into the mother's breast, signaling her body to adjust the milk's immune components to meet the baby's specific needs, through a mechanism known as "retrograde milk flow"
5GDP TIL there was a ‘father of algebra’ before Al-Khwarizmi.