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TIL Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the German general who told Hitler to go fuck himself

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dD9kZ TIL the blanket octopus has the largest size discrepancy between sexes of any animal. Females can grow over six feet, while males average about one inch.
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4b4a TIL that when Neil deGrasse Tyson first saw the stars come out at the planetarium at 9 years old, he thought it was a hoax. Growing up in the Bronx, he’d never seen the stars before due to light pollution.