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TIL The natural history museum in Dublin, Ireland is known as ‘The Dead Zoo’

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AOEx TIL the “Betty Boop” cartoon character was the subject of a lawsuit by the popular singer Helen Kane, who claimed her singing style had been ripped off. In court, however, it was proven that Kane had herself stolen the style from the African American singer Baby Esther.
VMbvB TIL that there was a long running hoax during World War II that Adolf Hitler was the inventor of the sex dolls. It was deemed as the "Borghild Project" and was "aimed at combating the spread of syphilis among Nazi troops by supplying the men with sex dolls."
kOMP1 TIL about industrial melanism,where darkly pigmented insects are selected over lightly coloured ones in industrial areas,because the trees are blackened by soot and provide camouflage.
mxMBM TIL the term factoid originally meant a piece of information that was accepted as a fact but wasn't true, or a made up fact that is accepted as true due to it appearing in print.
oRAxA TIL in 499 century BC, king Histaiaeus (ancient Greece) sent secret military messages tattooed on bald heads of messengers. After the hair regrew, they sent the messengers. In the destination they were shaved again to reveal the message.