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TIL that butterflies taste their food through their feet

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DQnOj TIL Jerry Springer was born in a London underground station to German-Jewish parents in 1944, when the tube was being used as a World War II bomb shelter.
b9EBQ TIL that the fiancée of the future serial killer Paul Knowles visited a Psychic medium. The Medium warned her that her fiancée was a “dangerous man”, and she needs to leave him. She called off the wedding and cut off contact with Knowles
Yb5W TIL of SABRE engine technology - basically planes that go from the ground to an altitude of 25 km, reach Mach 5.5 and then become rockets, kick you back into your seat and reach a speed of Mach 25. Such planes could reach anywhere in the world in roughly 4 hours.
JVNk TIL in Soviet Russia There Were 2 Newspapers: Pravda, which means the “Truth” & Izvestia, which means the “News”. The Russians Joked, “There is no truth in the News, and there is no news in the Truth.”
kOEj5 TIL that although lunar maria (dark basins on the moon) are usually named after psychic states, the IAU accepted the Soviet-discovered-and-named Mare Moscoviense on the basis that Moscow is a state of mind