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TIL Hitler's niece mysteriously died in his Munich apartment in 1931

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dD7wE TIL That there were pilotless drones as early as the 1950's and one inadvertently caused multiple incidents of civilian property damage, near civilian misses, and a 1,000 acre forest fire while the US Air Force struggled to shoot it out of the sky.
v1Zkr TIL of an newly discovered organism called Lithoredo abatanica that eats stone and excretes sand. It is a shipworm, a group of burrowing animals known for eating woods and related to clams, but so different from known examples that it is both a new species and genus.
9YRjQ TIL in Mexico prison breaking is not illegal. The legal system notes that all citizens have a fundamental desire to be free, so you cannot be punished from attempting to escape jail. If no other laws are broken, those who are caught must only return to jail to complete the rest of their sentence.
M7NLm TIL The oldest musical instrument in the world, a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal flute, is made from the left thighbone of a young cave bear.
mx1ep TIL that the Chinese use drones equipped with flame-throwers to fight trash stuck in power lines.