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TIL that algae are not plants and are protists (eukaryotes that are not plants, fungi or animals)

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R7MRj TIL Bea Arthur from the TV Show "Golden Girls" was a Marine truck driver in WW2 serving in Marine Corps and Navy air stations in Virginia and North Carolina reaching the rank of Staff Sergeant.
oRD5r TIL that lobsters don’t die of old age. They just keep growing and reproducing until something kills them.
VMOWD TIL Crows have been found to place nuts on the road so their tough shells can be broken open by passing vehicles. They even know to wait for the red light of traffic signals to retrieve the nuts.
N7DwN TIL One nuclear fuel pellet, roughly the size of a pencil eraser, provides as much energy as one ton of coal or nearly 150 gallons of oil.
v1ZdD TIL in 2007, Iran arrested 14 squirrels for spying.