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TIL Werwolf was a Nazi plan to create a resistance force which would operate behind enemy lines as the Allies advanced through Germany.

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rM7x TIL while in college, the writer of ‘Night at the Museum’ would regularly visit museums while high an acid.
7rkMP TIL that there's a thing that can happen during rainy winters called "Ghost Apples." where the rain freezes on the rotting apple and then eventually the rotten part falls out leaving the the ice encasement, showing what looks like a "ghost apple"
KV5J TIL in 1978, a US Navy ship was attacked by an unknown species of giant squid. Nearly all of the cuts found on the sonar dome contained remnants of sharp, curved claws found on suction cups of squid tentacles. The claws were much larger than those of any squid that had been discovered at that time.
e0V0L TIL That Preying Mantis do not follow you with their eyes. The pupil that seems to watch you is an effect generated by their nonmoving eyes when your field of vision lines up with one of the many cone shaped structures that make up their eye allowing you to see down the hole.
7rplM TIL: The Queen owns all the sturgeons, whales and dolphins in the waters within 3 miles from the UK