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TIL that the US Air Force speculated on producing a non lethal psychochemical weapon that would discharge female pheromones to make the enemy soldires fall in love with each other

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XEM1R TIL Seagulls have been attacking live Whales in Argentina - pecking open their skin to eat the blubber when the whales surface for air.
4XWoJ TIL that animals don't just go into a long sleep during hibernation...
vP4gB TIL of the Jewel Wasp who Zombiefies cockroaches with an injection to the brain and then leads the cockroach to its den like a pet to lay its larve in it that can feed on the fresh cockroach flesh when it hatches.
woPmP TIL of Zambia's space program involving being rolled down a hill & spun around trees in an oil drum as weightlessness training, then swinging on a rope then cut from it, emulating freefall. Taught to walk on their hands as this was "how you walk in space". A 16 yr old and a cat were Mars bound first
NVXP TIL in Sweden fathers are eligible for 13 months of PAID leave for every child they have.