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TIL about Cropmarks. They are archeological ruins only visible from the air. They result from more dry or fertile crops due to the soil disruption when ancient sites were built.

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x6LNw TIL about Sammy U, the little fella hidden in the Uhaul murals.
e0Abg TIL that a Spanish double agent, Juan Pujol Garcia got medals for spying from both Nazi Germany and the British Empire. He ran a fake spy network in London for Germany and recruited 27 fictitious agents all on German dime to provided them with fake intelligence during WW2.
grKy7 TIL that a type of Japanese water beetle can, when eaten by a frog, swim through the frog's digestive tract and escape through its anus
dBJj TIL that beer hops naturally produce an acid that can kill off a parasitic mite known to annihilate entire colonies of bees. Hops have shown such promise to helping Colony Collapse Disorder, that the EPA has even approved their use as a biochemical miticide.
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