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TIL 80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive WWII
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TIL Sea Otters have the densest hair in the world, with up to 140,000 hairs per square centimeter. Humans have about 300/cm² on their head.
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TIL of a historical marker on Galveston Island marking the site of the Battle of Three Trees in 1819: the pirate Jean Lafitte and 200 men battled with 300 Karankawa Indian warriors after the pirates kidnapped a Karankawa woman. The Karankawa retreated but the fate of the woman isn’t known.
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TIL that Boeing used to use ferrets to carry wires to inaccessible places on aircraft
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TIL “Happy Birthday” is now in the Public Domain after Time Warner was sued in 2016
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TIL of the Thud experiment where participants faked hallucinations to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital but then acted normal. They were forced to take antipsychotic drugs to be released.