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TIL red squirrels harvest mushrooms and then hang them in trees to dry. Once dried they collect them and store them for the winter.

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wLOJP TIL that Adolf Hitler joined the Nazi Party as a spy, when the German Army ordered him to infiltrate the organization.
7pJb TIL Will Wright, designer of SimCity 2000, said that the game does not actually reticulate splines when generating terrain, and he just inserted the phrase because it “sounded cool.”
W7d44 TIL that the actress that did the voice of Anne-Marie in All Dogs Go To Heaven was shot in the head by her father shortly after her lines were recorded. She was 10. And it took Burt Reynolds (Charlie) 63 takes to record his lines after this (goodbye scene). I can’t stop crying.
awOrZ TIL about the Battle for Castle Itter, where in the closing days of WWII a small group of Americans, French prisoners, a surrendered SS officer, and several Wehrmacht soldiers fortified an Austrian castle and held off a force of marauding SS soldiers.
e0wx6 TIL Manga is so popular in Japan that the country uses more paper for printing Manga than toilet paper.