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TIL that a baby porcupine is a porcupette

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JPg4 TIL that only 2.8% of Oklahoma High School Students passed a citizenship test, students in Phoenix did better at 3.5% in the same education poll
PO4G TIL during World War II, Polish doctors Stanislaw Matulewicz and Eugeniusz Lazowski infected Jews with a microbe Proteus OX19, which exhibits symptoms of typhus, which lead Nazi doctors to quarantine and stop deportations in fear of infecting Nazi troops, thus saving thousands of lives.
9RjX TIL that Robert Rodriguez left the directors guild because he wanted to list frank miller as a co-director for sin city as his style influenced the film so much but the directors guild wouldn’t allow it.
kR61 TIL of Luigi Cadorna, Italian WWI general. Infamously inept, he sent 300k troops to die in the Alps, randomly executing his own soldiers to motivate them.
KQXw TIL- that ‘noise’ you hear when you yawn or close your eyes tightly is produced by the Tensor Tympani muscle; only a small percentage of people can vibrate it at will