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TIL in 1970 only 552 brown pelican nesting attempts were made on West Anacapa Island and only one chick survived

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9wOJB TIL that Norman Rockwell attempted to enlist in the Navy during WW1 but was unsuccessful due to being 8 pounds underweight. He was able to enlist the next day after consuming a substantial amount of food, including bananas, liquids, and doughnuts.
KO7j9 TIL: The Navy patented an 'inertial mass reduction device', an 'electromagnetic force field generator', a 'high-frequency gravitational wave generator' and a room temperature super conductor in 2019. All created by a mysterious aerospace engineer by the name of Dr. Salvatore Cezar Pais
LQxQr TIL: There is a universe in the spiderverse in-which Spiderman was a T-rex called "Pter Parker"
N7oEE Like clockwork, every 26 seconds, seismometers across multiple continents have detected a mysterious pulse since at least the early 1960s, and no one knows why.
OGJJ4 TIL Genghis Khan, sent his small armies against larger ones & used the rest of his forces to terrorize the unprotected civilian population centers.He forced captives to kill their own&hid behind them while advancing,confusing enemies.A master of mobility&depth thus avoiding costly set piece battles.