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TIL in 2004, Dutch Scientists left a 'hamster wheel' in the wild, and all types of forest animals, including frogs and slugs, used it throughout the year

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yV0xe TIL the ex-president of Argentina Carlos Menem was raised as a Muslim, but later converted to Roman Catholicism to pursue a political career.
yXea TIL Emma Stone celebrated her mom being 2 years cancer free in 2010 by writing a letter to Paul McCartney asking him to sketch two birds’ feet because The Beatles’ song “Blackbird” was her mother’s favorite. Paul sketched the birds which Emma and her mom took and used to get matching wrist tattoos.
pYMVp TIL in 1987, during KNBC's Ch 4 News in LA, Gary Stollman got into NBC's Burbank Studios as a guest of a former employee and took David Horowitz hostage live on air. With a gun pressed to his side, Horowitz calmly read the gunman's statements about the CIA and mental health hospitals on camera.
VBYg0 TIL that during Germany's invasion of Russia, Joseph Goebbels sent a plea to the citizens of Germany to send in their winter clothing for the troops. This resulted in many Nazis on the grim Russian front wearing incongruously festive Christmas outfits.
6E7Gm TIL in 1866 Liechtenstein had an army of 80 men and fought during the Austro-Prussian war, they suffered no injuries or deaths and returned home with 81 people because they made a new Italian friend. The army was disbanded soon after and they haven't had an army since.