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TIL about that the Gorgone Macarea is a moth found in the Amazon jungle, whose whole diet consists of drinking the tears of sleeping birds

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woKY8 TIL Nazi General Loringhoven was inside the Führerbunker during the last days of Nazi Germany. He attempted to escape, was captured by Allied forces, and later became a NATO commander, retiring as Inspector General of the Armed Forces of West Germany in 1973.
w4Lo TIL that Nicholas Cage was on the cover of a Serbian biology textbook from 1991 to 2003
YpxNG TIL of the Machine Identification Code. A series of secret dots that certain printers leave on every piece of paper they print, giving clues to the originator and identification of the device that printed it. It was developed in the 1980s by Canon and Xerox but wasn't discovered until 2004.
0QRA TIL When a born deaf person thinks, they feel themselves signing in their head
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