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TIL that some sharks can "walk" on land. The epaulette shark can move across land using its fins, a fascinating adaptation that allows it to move between tide pools when the water recedes.

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69XZJ TIL that Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe during WWII and later President of the United States, spent most of the 1930's as Douglas MacArthur's aide.
pYne8 TIL in 1947, a moth got trapped between the relay on the Harvard's Mark II Calculator, making the worlds first computer bug an actual insect
QNnA6 TIL that it is illegal for certain Canadians and all Canadian companies to comply with US sanctions against Cuba
QJAGa TIL that the web security firm Cloudflare generates their encryption codes by taking videos of lava lamps' unpredictable movements and converting the randomness into a virtually unhackable code.
wLbO1 TIL - the average power of the sun, at the earth's distance is about 1400 watts per square meter (1.4kW/m^2).