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TIL: When pied babbler birds can't raise their own chicks, they sometimes steal chicks from neighbors to keep their group big enough to survive.

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ZpKGG TIL of CONOP 8888, also known as Counter-Zombie Dominance: a U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Command CONOP document that describes a plan for the United States and its military defending against zombies
rQed TIL Ulrich von Liechtenstein was a real man, and his autobiography depicts him as an undefeated jouster, competing for the hand of a noblewoman who demanded great deeds to even hold her hand.
d8M48 TIL that Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra was a founding member of the supposed Mexican cartel death core band Brujeria.
wLQeY TIL North Korea lured women from around the world for a "job in Japan" - only to marry them off to American defectors in North Korea. After one was released, she returned back to North Korea because she was shamed for being pregnant back home
b6Ml7 TIL the 1965 Spiegelman's Monster experiment demonstrated genetic replication and evolution in real-time at the molecular level, showing how natural selection could drive the emergence of more efficient genetic replication, even in an artificial setting.