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TIL leatherback turtles eat an average 800 to 900 lbs of jellyfish every day.

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x6Lg1 TIL of John Rabe, a Nazi who lived in China. He safeguarded 300,000 Chinese civilians from the Japanese during the “Rape of Nanking” and is regarded a hero in the city with numerous monuments dedicated to him.
wLPVW TIL the Soviet space shuttle looked identical to the American shuttle because it was built off of stolen NASA designs.
j6wmn TIL that Neil Harbisson — an artist born with complete color-blindness — became the world's first "cyborg" after he got an antenna implanted in his head that translates different wavelengths of light into vibrations on his skull, which he then perceives as sound.
RD78 TIL The CIA invested over 25 million dollars in a specially trained and equipped cat who should spy on the soviets. It was hit and killed by a taxi almost immediately after being released.
nR4b TIL that the girl in the red coat from Schindler’s List was told by Spielberg to not watch the film until she was 18. She watched it at 11 and was traumatized. She watched it again at 18 and understood “Spielberg was right: I had to grow up to watch the film.”