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TIL that Magnetospirillium magneticum is a free-living bacteria which has the ability to actively take in iron, convert it to magnetic magnetite, align it like a backbone along its body, and travel through its environment using magnetic fields.

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REMQ TIL that there are more tigers in captivity in Texas than in the wild worldwide
8aGja TIL of Israel's Law of Return. It dictates that any Jewish person, no matter their country of origin, what language they speak, or how much money they have, can be granted Israeli citizenship they day they arrive in Israel.
nWnM7 TIL the tower Michel de Montaigne wrote most of his Essays in, and the library that was once covered in the paintings, are accessible to visitors. Some maxims in the Essays are still visible today
b6ZBE TIL the Hatian Revolution is the only recorded successful slave revolt
grvGy TIL Fritz Haber invented a process of ammonia synthesis both to save the world from starvation and to serve the German war machine. He never saw the creation of Zyklon B from his process and its use by the Nazis to kill his relatives in the gas chambers.