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TIL That plastic magnets exist and that their magnetic strength can be adjusted by different colour lights.

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R7r8Q TIL about Frieda Belinfante, a half-Jewish lesbian who lived in Amsterdam during WWII, and disguised herself as a man to avoid being captured and executed by the Nazis. Even though she was wanted for being part of the resistance movement she escaped out of Amsterdam and lived til she was 90.
W7xJ9 TIL that Jose Andres the celebrity chef and founder of World Central Kitchen was a food consultant for the TV show Hannibal.
ADjmB TIL that a sheepherder in Wyoming built a cabin out of dinosaur bones he found on the ground, not knowing that’s what they were until a paleontologist stumbled upon the place in 1897.
gxoX TIL, Russian Scientists discovered seeds 124 feet below permafros that an “Ice Age Squirrel” had buried, the seeds dated back 32,000 years old. They were successfully germinated and a year later created their own seeds.
8aMWb TIL that Stan Lee proposed to his wife of 69 years after two weeks of dating. She was already married and filed for a quick divorce in Nevada an hour before being married to Stan. The judge who granted the divorce was the same one who performed the marriage ceremony.