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TIL: The reason that Moths are attracted to light is because prior to man-made artificial lighting, they used the light of the moon to help them navigate, so they mistake lights with light of the moon!

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bmyE TIL that Katherine Hepburn [b.1907-d.2003], 12 time Academy Award nominated actress was an atheist saying once in an interview: “I am an atheist and that’s it. I believe there’s nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for other people.”
JN8m TIL Israel’s first nuclear weapons were made from Uranium it had stolen from the United States
wLRa7 TIL that at the age of 10, a boy named Alexander Bell asked his father if could have a middle name. As a result, on his 11th birthday, he became Alexander Graham Bell of telephone fame.
YpMVP TIL Napoleon actually made it all the way the Moscow, and even captured the city. He thought this victory would force Russia to negotiate peace. But the retreating Russian army burned the city down rather than capitulate to Napoleon. Napoleon retreated back to France shortly after.
W7ekd TIL Yellowstone’s famed thermal pools can melt flesh and bone. In 2016, a tourist illegally searching for a swimmable hot spring fell into a portion of the Norris Geyser Basin, where his body was dissolved by the 450 degree, highly acidic water. His wallet and shoes were all that remained of him.