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TIL that moths rest with their wings open/flat, while butterflies tend to rest with their wings closed/raised.

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1aeeD TIL About Gourmand syndrome, a rare disorder who's sufferers become obsessed with gourmet food after suffering brain trauma.
vP1Ej TIL of Serge Voronoff, a French surgeon that was known as the "monkey gland man". He claimed to rejuvenate his patients, transplanting the testicles of executed criminals into millionaires, turning to using monkey testicles when supplies ran low. Over 500 men were treated with his technique.
PPZ TIL There are people who firmly believe nuclear weapons are a hoax
BNvy TIL in 1913, 4 year old Bobby Dunbar went missing, and police found him living as Bruce Anderson 8 months later. After jailing the kidnapper, he was returned to the Dunbar family. In 2004, DNA tests proved that he was, in fact, Bruce Anderson.
R7DRa TIL That the younger of brother of Nazi leader Hermann Goering, Albert, helped Jews escape Germany and the camps during the war and was a vehement anti-fascist who worked with the Czech Underground