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TIL that 80% of the animal species found in Madagascar, exist nowhere else on earth

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nPkb TIL that during WWII, the British, learned of a German radio navigation system codenamed ‘Wotan’. Wotan, or Odin, was a one-eyed Norse god, whence they deduced that the system used one beam, and were able to develop countermeasures before the system was even deployed.
JMEm TIL Hugh Hefner’s daughter is more than double the age of his fiance
x0A5 TIL that President Nixon, a Republican, originally signed the bill that provides Planned Parenthood with federal funding into law. He saw it as a way to keep people off of welfare.
WnWN TIL some slang words and phrases commonly used in the UK today originated 100 years ago in the trenches of WWI.
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