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TIL Hazardous Duty Pay is $150 a month. for the military.

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6EmXQ TIL Anni-Frid Lyngstad, a member of the music group ABBA, was one of the Nazi “master race ” Lebensborn children
jd9j TIL A British sailor in WWII escaped his submarine from depths of 171 feet and managed to get to the surface and survive.
QJ6EL TIL that Alex Karras, who played Mongo in Blazing Saddles, was also the dad in the 80s sitcom Webster and a member of the NFL Hall of Fame.
9wMpQ TIL that there’s at least one parasitic plant that mimics the host plant it is feeding off of — even if that “plant” is fake. The mechanism of this remains unsolved. “Plant sight” via its epidermis cells is considered one possibility.
p8G94 TIL that Chicago has a large pack of coyotes that patrol the city, hunting rats.