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TIL Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z, is the son of comedian Mel Brooks and Actress Anne Bancroft.

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47Ow TIL of Angel’s Glow, a condition observed in soldiers at the Battle of Shiloh, when their wounds began to glow blue and heal faster. In 2001, a 17yo discovered it was caused by nematode vomit, the beneficial bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens.
LQgmr TIL that bats are the only mammals capable of true flight
d8b9r TIL that birch trees have bark that peels because they can photosynthesize through their bark. Peeling off the old bark removes lichen and fungus that would prevent photosynthesis.
nd6r TIL the last individual of a species is called an Endling. When it dies, the species is extinct.
yVGle TIL Abraham Lincoln had already seen the play “Our American Cousin” and did not like it. He went at the insistence of his wife stating, "All right, Mary, I'll go; but if I don't go down in history as the martyr President, I miss my guess."