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TIL about “Snotbot,” a drone used by scientists to fly through whale exhalation plumes to gather information about whale health and ecology, DNA, stress and pregnancy hormones, microbiomes, etc.

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MpMK TIL In 1942 The Japanese (led by Gen. Imamura) fed 200 American POW’s to the sharks off Java Island in what became known as the Pig Basket Atrocities
yVvP8 TIL of HAVOC: High Altitude Venus Operational Concept - which would include artificial floating islands on Venus at an altitude that provides better living conditions than the surface of Mars or Titan
ZBXa TIL that Merlin the Wizard was possibly based on the legend of a real person, Myrddin Wyllt, a bard who went crazy watching the defeat and slaughter of his Celtic King Gwenddoleu and his army, and spent the rest of his life in the forest living among animals as a madman.
wonAM TIL New York mobster, Joe Gallo was a diagnosed schizophrenic, watercolor painter, and avid reader of classic literature, who paraded his pet lion around the city. He kidnapped his own bosses, sparked two gang wars, and was killed on his birthday, in 1972. And Bob Dylan wrote a song about him.
5a7B TIL that in 1983, the average life expectancy for a person with Down Syndrome was only 25 years old. It is now 60 years old.