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TIL The Colombian army created a pop song with a Morse code beat to communicate with kidnapped military personnel

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p8aBZ TIL Moles are our body’s mechanism to stop cells from becoming cancerous tumors.
mxlGY TIL College football player Jake Butt won the “Tight End of the Year” award 2 years back to back.
Bry0D TIL a hypnic jerk is a brief and sudden involuntary contraction of the muscles of the body which occurs when a person (not only me apparently) is beginning to fall asleep, often causing the person to jump and awaken suddenly for a moment
LwRv TIL “Judas” goats helped eradicate invasive goats in the Galápagos Islands. These goats are sterilized, GPS tracked, and given hormones to attract other goats so that armed hunters could kill all the goats from a helicopter, but leave the Judas goats alive so they could be used to find more goats.
d80rZ TIL that the current 50 star U.S. flag was designed by 17-year-old Robert Heft for a school project. He received a B-.