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TIL Texas spiny lizards have pushup contests for territory

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verj TIL David Hayter, voice for solid snake in metal gear solid series, wrote the screenplay for the X-Men and X-Men 2 films.
9wYjD TIL the British made “decoy sneakers” for SOE agents in the pacific to disguise their footprints and make them seem like barefoot locals.
rNEY1 TIL there was a massive horsemeat scandal in Europe 10 years ago
jOrX TIL in Lewis Carroll’s through the looking glass, Alice’s movements through the book map out a playable game of chess
rRXye TIL that the US also had concentration camps like germany during WW2 for Japanese Americans and so called Aleuts. They were forced to live in barely humane conditions in cramped shacks without plumbing or cooking facilities, while they also burned down some of the villages of the imprisioned.