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TIL: Giant sloths with wolverine-like claws used to roam America, and humans hunted them to extinction

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x6Bkb TIL after a Polish Admiral of German descent Józef Unrug was taken prisoner during WW2, his former Imperial German Navy friends came to visit him. Unrug refused to speak German with them, saying that he had forgotten that language in September 1939 the day Germany invaded Poland
BrwaK TIL That Tesla created first X-Ray image, a few weeks before Rontgen. However, he let Rontgen take full credit for the discovery and the patent.
X0PoQ TIL taking fish supplements daily for the past 15 years might not have been a good idea after all
ZN8p TIL an Ohio woman once got out of a parking ticket because of a missing comma in the state’s laws. She successfully argued that her car wasn’t a “motor vehicle camper” and therefore wasn’t included in the list of prohibited vehicles.
e0rOE TIL Mae Jemison was the first African American woman in space. She also was a doctor in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, started her own business, writes children’s books, has produced and directed modern dance plays, and was also in a few episodes of Star Trek.