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TIL Polar bears are almost completely invisible to infrared cameras

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Do0g TIL Civil War General John Brown Gordon was shot in the head and fell face first into his hat and would have drowned in his own blood except for a bullet hole in the hat through which the blood drained allowing him to live.
4nxo TIL after Mozart died, his wife married a Danish diplomat who’s head stone reads “here lies the husband of Mozart’s widow”
XEKN8 TIL of the top 200 WW2 Fighter 'aces', 195 of them were German. The other 5 were made up of 3 Japanse and 2 Finnish.
kJmg TIL that, according to a June 2012 Gallup poll, 46% of Americans believe that God created humans in their present form about 10,000 years ago.
R5go1 TIL that the main ingredient of Pepto Bismol, Bismuth Subsalicylate, was first used not only to prevent life threatening diarrhea from Cholera, but as a surface disinfectant because of its bactericidal properties. The medicine kills bacteria colonizing the intestinal mucosa that cause stomach upset.