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TIL That a rat king is a collection of rats who’s tails have been intertwined and bound together. They grow together and eat together and sometimes when one of them dies they eat it together. There can be up to 32 rats in one rat king.

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78bnO TIL that until the 1950s teaching of sign language in Australia was split along religious lines: Protestants learnt Auslan based on British Sign Language (BSL) while Catholics taught by Irish nuns learnt Australian Irish Sign Language (AISL). There are now only a few AISL speakers left.
E1K57 TIL of the Schulze-Boysens, a married couple who were members of the German high society. They were also anti-Nazi activists who formed a resistance group known as the Red Orchestra. They were caught and executed in 1942 but the Red Orchestra continued throughout the war as an espionage network.
ZpomG TIL Marion Stokes recorded decades of television, from the news to sitcoms like the Cosby Show and Star Trek, for archival purposes from 1977 until 2012. It took over her life, and she would schedule other life stuff around her ability to keep recording these shows.
0ddKy TIL in 1982 the US government secretly supplied state of the art Sidewinder missiles to UK during Falklands War. Overall British Harriers shot down 23 planes without a combat loss during the conflict.
W4lA TIL you can be prosecuted for deleting your browser history– as a felony, with a possible 20-year sentence. Even if you were unaware you were the subject of an investigation.