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TIL Prince had Epilepsy

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gBd9 TIL that the allies tricked the German postal service into inadvertently delivering anti-Nazi propaganda by airdropping bags of mail near bombed mail trains.
aGJL TIL that E.T., Blade Runner, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn, Poltergeist, and The Thing were all released on the same month and competed with each other at the box office.
WkOjB TIL that female dragonflies will fake their own death to avoid unwanted advances from male dragonflies
X00Er TIL that a third of the items returned to Amazon are simply destroyed in order to save time and space.
7rvLx TIL during solar eclipses, tree leaves act as pinhole cameras, resulting in trees casting crescent-shaped shadows on the ground. This effect puzzled Aristotle in the 4th Century BC.