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TIL female Crocodiles can produce offspring asexually, without the need for fertilisation from a male

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J1K6B TIL that Siemens manufactured 69 trains powered by Cummins engines.
WkJXY TIL The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima named by it’s pilot Col Paul Tibbets, after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who was named after a character of the book, Enola; or, Her fatal mistake. With eerily prophetic passages including “He is the bird of ill omen.”
vyoB TIL If we’d put a giant mirror 10 lightyears away from Earth and looked through a telescope, we’d (theoretically) see 20 years into the past
ya0J TIL that Shakespeare’s works take on a different meaning when performed with an era-appropriate accent instead of a modern one, often introducing rhymes or puns that don’t work in modern pronunciations.
e0Mm5 TIL while some countries struggle to fulfill government pension obligations, the Government Pension Fund of Norway currently holds over $1 trillion in assets.