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TIL if you fall into a hot spring at Yellowstone Park you could basically dissolve

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LknLp TIL that blood being blue until coming in contact with oxygen is a myth. Veins appear blue through our skin because red wavelengths are absorbed by our skin more than blue wavelengths resulting in the appearance of blue veins.
j69la TIL in addition to cryptids, North American folklore includes dozens of “fearsome critters,” like the Agropelter, a beast that throws sticks at passersby from hollow trees.
Y7gkW TIL that the character Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager was named after a the robot character AF709 in the 1960's sitcom "My Living Doll." AF709 was played by Julie Newmar.
6LKW TIL in 1963 a series of tests proved that the Hercules C-130 transport aircraft could land on and take off from the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal.
xkZo TIL: South African prison gangs use HIV infection as punishment, ordering gang members carrying the AIDS virus to rape disobedient inmates in a ritual known as “slow puncture”.