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TIL Axolotls are able to regrow their limbs, tail, gills, brain and heart in just a few weeks

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rNWwM TIL about the Hart Island Project, which is aimed at listing and identifying bodies buried in mass graves at New York City’s mass burial cemetery on Hart Island. Each body has a clock that counts the minutes, hours, days, and years until each body is identified and their story is told.
GY1BN TIL on April Fools’ Day 1997, Alex Trebek and Pat Sajak traded places. Pat Sajak hosted Jeopardy! and Alex Trebek hosted Wheel of Fortune with Sajak’s wife, Lesly, as Trebek’s co-host. Sajak and Vanna White played contestants at the wheel, with winnings going toward charities.
VR0B TIL that you can send your kid to a Communist summer camp in North Korea
BgvMW TIL anthropomorphism is defined as the tendency to attribute human forms, behaviors, and emotions to non-human animals or objects.
VM7B0 TIL that parts of Denver, CO are still contaminated due to a multiple fires and leakages at the Rocky Flats Plant. The Rocky Flats Plant manufactured Nuclear Weapons parts for the US Government from 1952 to 1992.