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TIL Earwigs care for their young and sometimes eat ass

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ADlDl TIL about Sergeant York, a pacifist who was drafted into the US Army for WWI, and would later capture 132 Germans in a single raid on a German machine gun nest
kJXkE TIL about Chaser, a border collie with the best tested memory of any non-human animal. She could recognize and fetch 1,022 toys by name and category.
Bgore TIL during World War Two, the Taraxacum kok-saghyz, rubber-producing dandelions, were used in the Soviet Union, the United States, the UK, Germany, Sweden and Spain as substitute for Hevea brasiliensis
9BjM TIL that in 1994 a 17 yr old boy used radioactive material from homemade items like clocks to build himself a nuclear reactor. Although it never came anywhere near reaching critical mass, it ended up emitting dangerous levels of radiation, likely over 1,000 times normal background radiation.
gB99 TIL Khadijah Williams, homeless girl went to Harvard. She attended 12 schools in 12 years; lived out of garbage bags among pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers. She was accepted to more than 20 universities before choosing Harvard.