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TIL a word - Groak - which means to stare at someone intently and expectantly, hoping that they give you some of their food.

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4XjNa TIL that during WWII there was an event known as that 'Battle of Los Angeles'. Citizens and military thought the Japanese were attacking Los Angeles and fired AA guns into the sky. Turns out it was only a lost weather balloon.
kJWl5 TIL that in Australia, the median maternal age at childbirth reached a 90-year low of 25.4 years in 1971, steadily rising ever since - by 2022, the parental age gap narrowed to its smallest range, dropping below an average 2-year difference, for the first time in half a century.
NYwQ TIL Nazi doctor Josef Mengele sewed two twins together back to back in an attempt to create conjoined twins.The children died of gangrene after several days of suffering.
gRY4 TIL that a study found that an additional ten trees on a given block corresponded to a one-per-cent increase in how healthy nearby residents felt and that patients with rooms in hospitals overlooking trees vs. those who’s rooms do no also recover and are discharged by about one day faster.
WkOVd TIL out of about 550 people who have been to space, only three have actually died there. In 1971, the Soyuz 11 cabin depressurized at an altitude of 104 miles. When unsuspecting recovery crews opened the capsule, they found the cosmonauts dead inside, with blood streaming from their noses and ears.