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TIL India has 3 foot long, multicolored squirrels.

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BgNRL TIL that in 1944, Germany was spending 75% of it's GDP on military expenditure.
KYdAQ TIL that one of the rarest Yu-Gi-Oh cards in existence is Tyler the Great Warrior. It was created by Tyler Gressle, a boy that had a rare form of liver cancer. He got to create his own card through Make-A-Wish Foundation and they printed one card just for him. He made a full recovery.
wonXJ TIL after a failed coup attempt in Japan, Masakatsu Morita acted as a second for the leader's seppuku. After 3 failed attempts to behead him, another man performed the deed. Morita then attempted seppuku himself, but stabbed himself too shallow to be fatal, and had to request his own beheading.
9VeQ TIL that Alan Turing dabbled in embryology, proposing the existence of molecules called morphogens that diffuse within embryos and control how they develop; the people who confirmed his proposal won a Nobel Prize.
6ELNX TIL that Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart were very close friends. One time, they snuck out of the White House to go to a party together. After flying with Earhart, Roosevelt obtained a student’s permit to fly, though didn't pursue this further since Franklin didn't want his wife to be a pilot.