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TIL that some wasps are smaller than single celled organisms. They miniaturize sucessfully by foregoing nuclei in their brains.

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PYn9V TIL In 1942, the Nazis cracked the algorithm for the serial numbers and rag content of British Pound notes. Using prisoners with counterfeiting skills, near perfect bills were produced with the plan to scatter them over England by air to induce hyperinflation and collapse the economy.
9Y1oX TIL the first ever Police car was an electric wagon with a speed of 16 mph (26 km/h) and travel 30 mi (48 km) before its battery needed to be recharged
ODg7 TIL: Composer Sun Ra once performed for catatonics and schizophrenics. One broke a years-long silence to ask him “Do you call that music?”
AXyl TIL Nigerians make up less than 1 percent of the black population in the United States, yet make up one-quarter of the black students at Harvard Business School; over a fourth of Nigerian-Americans have a graduate or professional degree, as compared with only about 11 percent of whites.
5Y0ok TIL that there is an island (Pheasant Island) between the border of France and Spain that, every 6 months, it changes from one government to another, during the change, there is also a ceremony on the island. However access is prohibited.