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TIL The seahorse is the only case of male pregnancy in the animal world

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rR7w TIL that during WWII Boeing camouflaged their production plant by building a fake town on the roof.
16rod TIL: That Gretel Bergmann, a German Jewish athlete, was banned from the Berlin Olympics despite matching the German high jump record. Two weeks before the Olympics, she received a letter from the German sports authorities stating she was being removed from the national team for under-performance.
rR6w4 TIL Southern California Edison is only now starting to replace bare power lines with insulated power lines in high wildfire risk areas.
DOVY TIL In 2008, Prince covered Radiohead’s “Creep” at Coachella. Someone uploaded a mobile video of it to Youtube. Prince quickly made Youtube remove it. After finding out about the blocking, Radiohead’s lead singer Thom Yorke said “Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our song.”
R7Yp9 TIL Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26 year old who dedicated his life to protecting leatherback sea turtle nests from poachers on Moin beach in Costa Rica. Him and volunteers, would collects the eggs and guard them in a hatchery. On May 30, 2013, he was kidnapped and murdered.