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TIL that when ppl say planets don't have tails, they're wrong. Mercury has a sodium tail

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JBk4 TIL that Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy, managed to become one of Syria’s Prime Minister’s best friends. While “touring” the Golan Heights, he expressed concern that the soldiers guarding fortifications are exposed to too much sun and had trees planted, which the IDF used as targeting markers.
5MYR TIL that in 1986 a convict escaped during a prison transfer. A week later he returned in a stolen helicopter and broke out his girlfriend.
d8Nm8 TIL a quarter of cowboys were black
MP8K TIL incubators for premature infants were initially only available at freak shows. The inventor had been turned down by hospitals, so he funded his work by putting premies on display, and didn’t charge the parents for the care.
awWgZ TIL The Greek philosopher Pythagoras of Samos was not the one who discovered the Pythagorean theorem.