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TIL - When sharks attack humans, they do not mistake us for seals, or other food sources. Sharks have acute senses which includes good hearing, sharp vision, minute changes in water pressure and detection of bioelectrical fields. They are curious, they bite us to see if we are a good food source.

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gMlM8 TIL about Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko, a Soviet sniper in the Red Army during World War II, credited with at least 309 confirmed kills. She is regarded being in the top five military snipers of all time and the most successful female sniper in history. Lyudmila was nicknamed "Lady Death".
WkVEX TIL Experimental drugs, which are proven safe and effective when tested in animals, fail 80 percent of the time when tested in people.
QJo1p TIL of Cibella Borges, a female NYC cop who was fired from her job after it was revealed she posed for a nude magazine prior to becoming an officer. She was reinstated three years later and awarded $80,000 in backpay
5V0yQ TIL Bacon was invented in Ancient China
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