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TIL Horseshoe crabs have saved more human lives than all other animals put together

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neeMb Short answer: Only if you believe it does
nerjG TIL that John P. O'Neill, counter terror expert and head of FBI National Security Division who spent many years investigating Al Qaeda, retired in early August 2001 and started his new job later that same month - as Head of Security at the World Trade Center. He died there on September 11.
0MVy TIL That if you take all the letters from the word “wizard” and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.
oRo6o TIL in 2009 an orangutan in an Australian zoo aborted an "ingenious" escape plan. She short-circuited the electric fence around her enclosure by jamming a stick into the wires connected to it & then piled up debris to climb a wall. However she sat on the fence for 30 min before voluntarily returning
KOVOJ TIL Uranium-235 generates 2.5 million times more than the energy released from burning coal.