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TIL: National Park Services has their own Investigative Services Branch. The FBI of of the NSB, solving decades old Cold Cases in the worst of conditions.

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YgpW TIL that the public had little knowledge of FDR’s paralysis and that he had a “gentleman’s agreement” with the press to not photograph him in his wheelchair
lEbB TIL chickens have special eyes. the unusual arrangement of cells in a chicken’s eye constitutes the first known biological occurrence of a potentially new state of matter known as “disordered hyperuniformity”
6EwDW TIL that a 2012 study found 1,458 “new to science” bacteria species in our belly buttons. People’s bacterial profiles are unique, like fingerprints, and can be used in the same way. One person had a bacterium only ever found in Japanese soil," where he had never been.
pw6Z TIL that Vermont declared war on Nazi Germany in WWII 3 months before the US did
r0we TIL Christopher Columbus used a lunar eclipse, predicted by European science, to persuade Jamaican natives that he was a God. This convinced them to continue feeding him and his men, at great personal loss.