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TIL that during WWI, the Germans tried to convince the Allied soldiers at Dunkirk to surrender using propaganda leaflets dropped from the air. The soldiers used these leaflets as toilet paper.

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YgpW TIL that the public had little knowledge of FDR’s paralysis and that he had a “gentleman’s agreement” with the press to not photograph him in his wheelchair
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e0GkE TIL that crabs have teeth in their stomachs and they use them to 'growl' at predators
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woaM TIL in 2004, The New York Times wrote an article about the loneliest whale in the world. Scientists have been tracking her since 1992 and they discovered the problem: she sings at 52hz, and so no other whales can hear her.