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TIL The sandtiger shark gives birth to live young, but doesn’t have enough placenta or yolk to feed all of them in the womb: Instead, the embryos eat each other until the strongest sharks are born.

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gMblW TIL about Boris Weisfeiler, a Soviet-born American mathematician who was kidnapped in 1985 — allegedly for his Jewish faith — by the Colonia Dignidad, a Nazi commune in Chile. His fate remains unknown, as several witness have claimed to have seen him in the Colonia even decades later.
e0nLn TIL that even though we remember Nixon as a terrible president for Watergate, he was actually tremendously popular, and in his second election won 49 of the 50 states.
9Yx96 TIL ‘The Blair Witch Project’ cost $60,000 to make and grossed $248 million, giving it a ratio of $10,931 made for every $1 spent. One of the cameras used for the production was purchased at Circuit City and then returned for a refund once filming was complete.
xdGB TIL Julia Stewart, worked as a waitress for IHOP at 16, then through hard-work became the President at Applebees, and after being passed over as CEO for Applebees became the CEO at IHOP and ultimately acquired Applebees.
Wklmd TIL about South African Fritz Joubert Duquesne: Anglo Boer war soldier, spy for Germany in WW 1 and 2, adviser on big game hunting to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, US citizen, British soldier, journalist, fake Australian war hero and head of the New Food Society in New York, and it goes on.