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TIL there exists an animal that can photosynthesize called the Leaf Sheep

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5RNP TIL most streets in Japan don’t have names. In Japan, they use a very different addressing system than is used in most Western countries. Rather than streets having names (the space in between blocks), they give blocks numbers and leave the space in between the blocks, streets, nameless.
JYrJl TIL that Napoleon used to fight with one of his classmates at the Military Academy of Paris (Sidney Smith). Then at 1799 during the Siege of Acre Sidney Smith meet Napoleon again but now in battlefield, where Napoleon was defeated.
dD418 TIL The terms Whig and Tory originated from partisan religious divide in Great Britain. Whigs comes from Scottish Presbyterians horse thieves, while Tory was an Irish term for a Roman Catholic outlaw. They formed due to King James II/VII, the last Catholic monarch in the UK.
QJKZE TIL the lead singer of Toto is the son of legendary composer John Williams
aVZZ TIL Dr. Bernice Eddy warned the NIH that the polio vaccines they were about to release contained live polio virus. They ignored her and released the vaccine anyway, and as a result 40,000 children developed polio. The NIH director who dismissed Dr. Eddy then resigned.