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TIL of Ken Alibek, last USSR 1st Deputy Director of Biopreparat. Before defecting to the US in 1992 he destroyed vast bioweapon (BW) stockpiles and production facilities but could not stop all future BW work in Russia. His 1999 book Biohazard details the USSR’s secret, treaty-violating BW program.

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OGbQX TIL in 2012 a woman discovered that her ex-boyfriend from 12 years ago had been living in her attic for about two weeks. Her adult sons & nephew found him asleep in the back of the attic which caused him to flee. They also saw he had rigged the ceiling vents so he could watch her in her bedroom.
Wkeg4 TIL that birds' beaks are not a solid, exposed bone, but instead are a bony structure covered in translucent living tissue that can change color at different times of the year, when they are breeding, or based on their diet/health.
KYGQE TIL the Big Mac guy from the Supersize Me documentary has now consumed over 34,000th Big Macs and is in good health
Z5kR TIL A Swedish Couple Named Their Child “Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116”, Pronounced As “Albin”. The Parents Claimed It Was “A Pregnant, Expressionistic Development That They See As An Artistic Creation.”
0j11 TIL Mary Anning was an English woman who discovered dinosaur fossils, was the first to assemble a full skeleton of an Ichthyosaur, a self-taught scientist, a business owner, confirmed the existence of the Pterodactyl, and one of the founders of Paleontology.