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TIL coconut crabs are suspected of hiding Amelia Earhart’s remains.

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VMrGQ TIL cats in Kazan, Russia were so good at catching mice, they were shipped to St. Petersburg in 1745 to deal with a rodent infestation. A statue dedicated to the cats can be found in Kazan today.
wWr1 TIL a biker got a flat tire in the motorway, a man in a van stopped to help him and decided to carry the bike in the van. Minutes after departing the man suffered a stroke while driving, the biker then performed CPR following 112 instructions whilst waiting for the ambulance and saved the man’s life
JYmXv TIL that not only is there a difference between male and female tanks, with male tanks having, at the smallest, six-pound guns while female tanks have smaller, typically machine guns, but the French had a tank class called ‘dream of virgin’ in French
R7Nea TIL that a study of U.S federal courts found that on the Monday after the switch to Daylight Saving Time, when people lose sleep, judges gave sentences of on average 5% longer than normal
167DW TIL Gregor Mendel's research into inheritance was largely ignored or misunderstood until Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns independently duplicated his works in 1900. Mendel's paper on plant hybridization had only been cited 3 times in the previous 35 years.