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Today I learned that some military aircrafts have a fake cockpit painted on them so it’s harder to determine their orientation

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8a6EV TIL mother polar bears nurse their cubs for as long as 30 months. Some cubs stop nursing as young as 18 months of age, but remain with their mothers for survival until they are 30 months old. The average fat content of polar bear milk is 33%, similar to the milkfat content of other marine mammals.
bpr9 TIL Brother Theodore was imprisioned in Dachau until he signed over his family’s fortune. He went to Switzerland but was kicked out for chess hustling. Einstein helped him escape to the US and he became a janitor in Stanford where he beat 30 professors simultaneously. Then he became an actor.
EgVe7 TIL the word "nuclear" is very often mis-spoken as "nucular". The pronunciation has often been used to signify low intellect and it has been said by numerous famous people and referenced in shows like Family Guy, the Simpsons and Woody Allen's 1989 film Crimes and Misdemeanors
wWbW TIL that octopi, octopuses, and octopodes are all correct plural forms of the word octopus.
PopZ TIL Oklahoma (not California, Japan, Chile, etc) Experiences More Earthquakes Than Anywhere Else in the World