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TIL there was a second attack on Pearl Harbor in March of 1942

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EeOw TIL the investigation of Adam Walsh’s abduction was alleged to be incompetent; they lost the bloodstained carpet from the suspect’s Cadillac, the machete used to decapitate Adam, and eventually the car itself. The suspect was never charged, though he provided accurate descriptions of how he did it.
Br7Qx TIL David Bowie's eyes weren't of different colours. He suffered from anisocoria, which means that the iris can’t react to light in the same way as its fellow, so the area appears to be darker. So, what appeared to be different coloured eyes, was just that one pupil was bigger than the other.
rRoy4 TIL The holes in honeycombs don't actually start out as hexagons. Bees create circular tubes staggered with one another. The heat formed by the activity of the bees softens the wax, which connects the gaps between the holes. Then the wax hardens into the the most energy efficient shape, the hexagon.
XEOZ6 TIL the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite losing that much material, it has only lost about 0.05% of it's original mass over the past 4.5 billion years.
5Y6np TIL Pablos Escobar imported 4 hippos for his private zoo. Today there are close to 80 hippos living wild in Columbia.