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TIL That All Dinosaurs May Have Been Warm-Blooded

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Oap6 TIL In WWII, partially due to America’s ship-building rate, advances in radar technology, as well as cracking the “Enigma code”, German U-boats had a 75% casualty rate by the end of the war,(the highest of all German forces).
JY89v TIL that when bees finish mating they rip open their abdomen and die a slow, painful death
5Y1or TIL that one of Napoleon's heirs just married an Austrian countess, who is descended from Napoleon's second wife, in in the medieval palace where the French emperor himself once lived.
kO561 TIL During President Kim Il-sung’s visit to Indonesia in 1965, President Sukarno showed Kim around the Bogor Botanical Gardens when the latter was smitten by an orchid. Sukarno promptly named the flower Kimilsungia and appointed it as the symbol of the eternal friendship between the two countries
awMdZ TIL of President Husni al-Za'im , who after taking over the Syrian government tried to give women right to vote, did not execute anyone during his reign and tried to make peace with Israel.