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TIL that Ernst Kaltbrunner, a Nazi War Criminal living under a false name, was caught because his mistress saw him by chance and called out his name and ran to hug him

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ANDvx TIL about Will & William West, two felons who looked visually similar and even had similar anthropomorphic measurements. Officials needed fingerprints to “prove” they were different people. While mugshots still persist, most body measures have given way to fingerprints.
oXR8 TIL of the The Ketchup ‘n’ Fries plant. Also known as the Pomato is the stem of a tomato plant grafted onto the root system of potato plant that can grow both tomatoes and potatoes at the same time.
E16l0 TIL one unofficial method of defending merchant vessels against Somali pirates is to blast Britney Spears music. And it has been reported to be effective.
BrRND TIL That Octopus And Squid Possess The Super-Power To Rewrite Their RNA. Researchers say that this type of RNA editing can allow a single octopus gene to produce an array of various proteins from the same DNA.
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