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TIL hibernation during summer months is called aestivation

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LkeG9 TIL of Evelyn McHale. The Most Beautiful Suicide (link in comment)
6Ev1W TIL in 1987, FBI agent Robert Hanssen was tasked by his superiors to find a mole within the agency after the FBI's moles in the KGB were caught. In reality, he was the mole, working with the KGB since 1979. He was eventually caught in 2001 and is currently serving 15 consecutive life sentences.
78OeM TIL that former Harvard President Lawrence Summers resigned in large part due to a speech in which he said the reason for underrepresentation of women in the hard sciences was partly due to genetics
E1MNP TIL that Taylor Swift composed her song "Enchanted" after a meeting with Adam Young (Owl City) which, in return, presented a cover dedicated to her of the same song on Valentine's Day. Despite the interviews they gave at the time and the romantic text of the songs, the two never officially dated.
rKgW TIL of a compulsive art vandal named Hans-Joachim Bohlmann, who caused almost $190 million worth of damage over his lifetime by attacking famous works of art .