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TIL Great White Sharks sometimes regurgitate a bite to make room for a more calorically-rich morsel, evidence that white sharks are adept at assessing the caloric value of their food and are selective when feeding.

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Y78Dr TIL Edmund Hillary (first person to summit Mt Everest) was scheduled to serve as a guide for a flight over Antarctica on Air New Zealand Flight 901, but canceled to instead embark on a US speaking tour. Flight 901 ended up crashing into Mt Erebus, killing all onboard.
POL TIL in 1880 the Queen of Thailand drowned while her subjects watched because they were forbidden to touch her.
x6VD1 TIL under laboratory conditions humans were able to detect infrared and ultraviolet light.
ZDp4 TIL that in 2002 a fire broke out at a girls school in Saudi Arabia and the religious police prevented girls from escaping because rescuers would be sexually enticed by the ‘improperly covered’ girls. 16 died.
NXbJP TIL The Universe has an average colour – and it’s called cosmic latte