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TIL that one of the largest known winged insects was a relative of dragonflies that lived 300 million years ago. It was predatory, had a 70 cm (2 ft 4 in) wingspan, and weighed up to 150 grams (1/3 lb).

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eW64 TIL that when you receive a kidney transplant, your own kidney isn’t removed. It usually stays where it is and a third kidney is placed in your pelvis.
V6ZB TIL of a Jewish man who escaped Germany in 1938 at age 13 and returned in 1945 as a U.S. Military Intelligence officer charged with hunting escaped Nazis and proving that Hitler was dead. In the process he tracked down a dozen SS officers and discovered Hitler’s Last Will and Testament.
VMlg4 TIL A study concluded that when humans forbid dogs to eat foods, dogs are 4 times more likely to steal the food in the dark, when they think humans can’t spot them. Dogs based their stealing strategies on their belief that humans can see or not in low light conditions.
oBXYK TIL that Varina Davis, wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis during the US Civil War, was marginalized due to her dark Welsh complexion, eventually became a Yankee, and accidentally became a good friend of the widow of Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
LErV TIL That telling “scary ghost stories” is an old Christmas Eve tradition that has died out in the past century