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TIL that in World War I, Charles de Gaulle would crawl up to German trenches under the cover of darkness and listen in on conversations, gathering vital intelligence.

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JY4Ml TIL of a study which suggests melatonin, the hormone associated with control of our sleep-wake cycles, evolved 700 million years ago from our tiny oceangoing ancestors that would swim to the surface of the sea at twilight and then sink into the depths of the ocean in a sleepy fall through the night.
jN9BN TIL in the early 1940's the group, ABCDEF (American Boys' Club for the Defense of Errol Flynn) was formed
pmZN TIL that Target Corporation runs 2 state of the art criminal forensics labs.
E1QWp TIL Sweden banned hunting brown bear mothers who are still with her cubs. Mother bears have now evolved to care for their cubs an additional year.
D1YpJ TIL that a hydra, a freshwater cousin of the jellyfish, can survive being chopped in a blender. Its pieces will crawl their way back toward each other to reassemble as a complete organism.