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TIL Some frogs reproduce in complex systems involving multiple different species

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mxjXO TIL while Benjamin Franklin was in Paris during the American Revolution, his secretary was a British spy. The spy used the cover of weekly letters about “gallantry” (exploits with women). He would write in-between the lines in a special ink and leave the letter in a dead drop every Tuesday night.
9wP5r TIL about Kintsugi. The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. It signifies the breaking of an object as a part of its past, and not something to be hidden or embarrassed about.
Da0J TIL Dan Burros a member of the American Nazi Party and later of the KKK committed suicide after he discovered his Jewish background was made public in a New York Times Article
d8O8j TIL as part of Ben Franklin's will, the cities of Boston and Philadelphia both received 1000 pounds sterling with the will requiring a portion of the money be set aside for 200 years. When this portion was finally accessed it was worth several million dollars.
nWJpW TIL that the North American Tectonic Plate is so large it includes Greenland, parts of eastern Russia, and parts of northern Japan