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TIL a group of pandas is called an "embarassment"

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aEn0 TIL Adolph Malan, a South African flying ace, led the No. 74 Squadron RAF during the battle of Briton, known for sending bomber pilots home with dead crews as a warning to other German crews. When he returned home, he considered apartheid a Nazi ideal, and got involved in anti-apartheid movements.
AG1a TIL: If you cut off a Starfish’s leg it will grow back. The leg itself will also grow a new body containing four new legs effectively cloning itself.
x6B6B TIL They made some random black guy an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in 1906. His name was Ota Benga, an African Pygmy.
OG6ag TIL bears in Yellowstone can eat 40,000 moth grubs per day.
69Zl TIL that there are actual anti-drugs out there. Anti-weed, anti-LSD, and anti-heroin drugs have been developed in order to give the user the opposite effect of their more illegal counterparts.