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TIL sandollars are the skeletons of flattened sea urchins

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5Grn TIL that Betty Crocker never existed as a real person, and her image has changed to match the tastes of the American public.
W7ad TIL in 1917 Germans built a 25-foot-tall armor-plated fake tree with a soldier sitting in it to spy on Allied forces. the Germans waited until nightfall and cut down one of the real trees to replace it with the fake one With artillery firing the whole time so the Brits wouldn’t hear the axes.
eaBE TIL that Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support
yQQNe TIL That the first female crime boss in the US had a gang of kids to do her bidding
xVQ1b TIL the iconic, tall, long-armed Saguaro Cactus, which has become a symbol of the American West, only grows in one place. It's native to the Sonoran Desert, an area of land along the Arizona, California, and Mexico borders.