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TIL Pandas are called “cat bears” in China

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Wk0B8 TIL That in 1941, Rudolf Hess, the "Deputy Fuhrer" of Nazi Germany, seemingly without Hitler's knowledge, flew to Scotland in a deranged plan to meet a Scottish baron he knew, and through him meet with Churchill to persuade him to stop the war. He was found by a farmer and immediately imprisoned.
4goN TIL that some schools in the Southern United States still hold two separate, segregated proms- one for whites and one for blacks.
0Xnv TIL:A man injected himself with snake venom during most of his adult life to build up an immunity to a array of venomous snakes. He lived to age 100, and survived a reported 172 snake bites. He donated his blood to be used in treating snake-bite victims when a suitable anti-venom was not available.
kOpnW Today I learned that you could use tally sticks in England until 1826.
d8RK9 TIL rice is grown in water to prevent weed growth, rice does not need to be surrounded by water to grow, however, weeds will die surrounded by water.