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TIL Puffins Spend Almost All Their Time at Sea in the Winter

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9wLbp TIL: Grimace has an Irish uncle named Uncle O’Grimacey.
l70RK TIL that in the Battle of Montgisard, Baldwin IV's army of only about 3,000-4,500 crusaders defeated Saladin's much larger army of approximately 21,000-26,000 men.
emKg TIL that the Hindenburg was originally designed to use non-flammable helium but the USA refused to export any resulting in the hydrogen based construction.
9wKPp TIL that the urine of postmenopausal women was used as infertility treatment (menotropins) since they contained higher quantities of specific hormones.
E1pL0 TIL: More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another's scientist's experiments