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TIL Mother turtles wait nearby and call to their babies when they hatch to lead them to safety.

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4XZog TIL There's a theory that John Wilkes Booth wasn't killed after assassinating Abraham Lincoln, but that he actually escaped and lived under a pseudonyms for 38 more years -- and that his mummified body toured the country for decades after his true death in 1903.
j6gaa TIL that despite their drivers being nicknamed “Massholes”, Massachusetts roads are annually ranked the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd safest in the country.
9Y8wB TIL that beer mugs are not called "steins" in Germany. "Stein" is the German word for "stone." The English word "stein" probably comes from the German word "Steinzeug" which means "stoneware"—the type of pottery that cheap beer mugs are often made of.
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d8Npd TIL On the magnitude scale, brightest objects have the smallest number and the faintest objects have the largest numbers. The full moon has a magnitude of - 12.6 while the brightness of the Sun is about -26.7