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TIL the DMZ between North and South Korea has created an ecological oasis where otherwise rare or extinct species are thriving.

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yQxpa TIL that Bulbasaur was based on a frog, not a lizard.
7rv6X TIL about sakotis, a Lithuanian tree-shaped cake made by continuously pouring layers of batter onto a rotating cylinder. A 2 kilo cake uses 30 eggs, but the largest one ever made was 2 meters tall and used 1200 eggs!
Ooja6 TIL: In 1841 during a naval battle between Argentina and Uruguay, the ship from Uruguay ran out of cannonballs. The captain ordered his men to shove the hard balls of cheese they had onboard into the cannons and to fire those. The cheese tore holes in the Argentine ship's sails and killed 2 sailors.
59j8 TIL Field Marshal Rommel was involved in the 20 July plot against Hitler but, because of Rommel’s immense popularity, Hitler decided to force him to commit suicide rather than have him tried as a traitor with the other conspirators. The public were told he died from combat wounds.
jwkR TIL that an extinct bird called Rodrigues Solitaire had strange knob-like balls on its wings. These balls were used by the bird as a deadly weapon to defend territory and its mate, and made a noise like thunder in the distance