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TIL That almost every earthworm in North America is an invasive species

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4Xwja TIL that several former Nazis, including Adolf Heusinger, who served as acting Chief of Staff of the Army for Nazi Germany, and Johannes Steinhoff, who was one of the highest scoring Luftwaffe pilots, took high level positions within NATO after World War II.
QRoa TIL Earth’s mantle holds several oceans worth of water.
PBLE TIL Michael Jackson’s Pepsi accident, where his hair caught fire, occurred exactly on the middle day of his life.
D6Gv TIL that antelopes will run from a cheetah that is 800 meters away, but will wait until a lion is only 200 meters away, because lions are stealth hunters and a visible lion is unlikely to attack.
nex0B TIL a man endured 440 days drifting across the Pacific Ocean until he was found in the Marshall Islands in 2013, emaciated and wearing only his underpants, having swum ashore.