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TIL that Palm oil producers are wiping out orangutans – despite multinationals’ promises

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kOLk7 TIL: just after the end of WW2 Sweden and Greece both had thousands of sightings of UFO's called Ghost Rockets. The US government took them seriously enough that Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower sent war hero Gen. Jimmy Doolittle to Sweden to investigate in 1946.
9aND TIL Alligators have an incredibly resilient immune system. They don’t get serious infections from cuts and bruises even while living in bacteria infested swamps. Alligator blood is effective against 23 types of bacteria, and fungi and viruses including HIV.
R5o46 TIL that from 1961 to 1993, 6 out of the 7 US Presidents were navy veterans.
EGZV TIL that from the 1860s to the mid 1970s many US cities had ‘Ugly Laws’ making it illegal for people with visible disabilities to appear in public
R5x6a TIL The oldest known museum was built sometime around 530 B.C, by a Neo-Babylonian princess named Ennigaldi-Nanna. Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum displayed artifacts from earlier eras of Mesopotamian history, going back as far as the 20th century B.C.