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TIL There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.

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m1ZxY TIL the Platypus glows under black lights, senses electric fields, has both reptilian and mammalian genes and traces its ancestry back over 100 million years
knZd TIL that “Koko, a female gorilla trained in sign language, once tore a steel sink out of its moorings. When her handlers confronted her, Koko signed ‘cat did it’ and pointed at her innocent pet kitten.”
MeXVm TIL that the Mouse Utopia Experiments In the 1960s had a huge influence on the animated film The Secret of Nimh. NIMH stands for the National Institute of Mental Health, by the way.