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TIL that at one time the US Army used color blind people to spot camouflage colors that fooled those with normal color vision

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0dJQv TIL : Cockroaches are pretty good parents! "The cockroach parenting method—which includes feeding, guarding and keeping their young very close—has served the insects for at least 125 million years."
16M9V TIL of the submarine USS Tang. It was hit when it's own torpedo boomeranged. 89 crew with 29 trapped. 13 made it out through a hatch but only 9 made to the surface where they were picked up by the Japanese and taken to a POW camp. They survived the war.
OdX4 TIL there was a German town which reportedly disappeared after it was washed away by the North Sea in the year 1362. Historians are confident that it existed, however there is debate over where it originally was located. It is sometimes called “the Atlantis of the North Sea.”
1mM7 TIL that platypus will attack hidden batteries in their habitat after sensing their voltage and believing them to be prey.
N76db TIL that the CIA was on a Quest For Mind Control. They used Torture, LSD And had a ‘Poisoner In Chief'