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TIL that flying squirrels glow pink under UV light

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v4wR TIL: The use of pepper spray during wars is banned by Article I.5 of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Lk17v TIL Raymond Teller (from Penn and Teller) once sued a YouTube magician for selling the secrets behind one of his acts.
QNGDM TIL: In 1998, elementary students in Aurora, Colorado started buying slaves in Sudan to free them, this gained global attention with schools in other countries starting slave buyback programs until it became clear that the money was just helping slavery grow
YAWW TIL NASA has developed a technology called FINDER used to detect breathing or heartbeats through up to 30 feet of rubble, or 20 feet of solid concrete, and was used to save lives during the 2015 Napal earthquakes.
LQWnP TIL the word Snafu started off as a military acronym for the phrase Status Nominal: All Fouled Up. The military acronym started in the 1940s and was meant to highlight situational messes on missions. The term has since graduated to accepted slang.