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TIL of “Judas wolves”, wolves that are trapped and radio-collared so that hunters can track them back to their packs and kill their entire families

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0rP5 TIL During storms at sea the waves would rock the boat so seasick passengers would head below deck to a lower point where the rocking was less noticeable. Passengers were thus forced under the deck by the weather… and the expression “under the weather” was born!
4X1n5 TIL Quasar P352-15, is known as the brightest object in the Universe. At a distance of 13 Billion Light-Years Away, this quasar comes from a time when our Universe was only 7% its current age.
EbQ7 TIL that when doctors did not belive Drs. Barry Marshall and Robin Warren’s discovery in 1982, which showed that Helicobacter pilory causes stomach ulcers, Marshall himself drank a beaker of H. pylori culture. He bacame ill of stomach ulcers and they won the nobel prize in physiology in 2005.
jx5Q TIL A boy who re-created his school as a map on Counter-Strike, is not permitted to graduate as it was a “terroristic threat”
nWPB TIL the head of the Gestapo disappeared after WWII and his fate remains a mystery.