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TIL that when studying sea anemones off the coast of Yemen, researchers discovered that there’s no natural enemy for the Yemeni anemone.

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5ZZD TIL One of the few female physicists on the Manhattan Project moved to Communist China afterwards. She spent the rest of her life as a farmer in a small village outside Beijing.
mxaNM TIL On May 20, 1989, Martial Law was declared in Tiananmen Square as its citizens demanded political reform. Just over a month into these protests, soldiers and officers stormed the Square while firing live rounds. The event is commonly referred to as June Fourth Massacre and June Fourth Crackdown.
XEEPk TIL that the "noon bell ritual" is the celebration of the succesful defense of Belgrad against the Ottoman Empire's siege in 1456
OwW1 TIL the first scientist to see penguins engage in gay sex and necrophilia was so disturbed he tried to obscure his findings
ANN9w TIL That an ancient Greek explorer named Pytheas of Massalia traveled from Greece to the arctic circle in the 4th century BC