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TIL there’s one special ops unit in the world, that never lost a man in action

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wb6P TIL that seahorses engage in an eight hour courtship dance which includes spinning around, swimming side by side and changing colors.
kl7m TIL a man named Russell Jones, an art director from Park Slope, Brooklyn, received numerous phone calls from Wu-Tang fans who thought he was Russell Jones aka Ol’ Dirty Bastard. One time, Jones received a phone call from Method Man himself, who asked to speak to “Dirty”.
REN4 TIL the United States of America has a mystery that one writer calls “the biggest animal cold case in the nation’s history”: cattle/animal mutilations. In Kansas, for example, cattle were found with “ears, tongues, genitals and udders all neatly removed. Often, the scene was bloodless and trackless”
GA4Y7 TIL that the threat from Algeria was the reason the U.S. Navy was founded. In 1794, the U.S. Congress passed the Naval Act, authorizing the construction of six frigates, including the USS George Washington. This decision was largely driven by the need to protect American merchant ships from Algiers.
YA6A TIL The average American will have eaten 1,500 of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before their high school graduation.