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TIL Craig Ferguson won a Peabody Award in 2009 for his interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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j6M4p TIL the Hawaiian bobtail squid feeds a symbiotic bacteria living inside of it (called Vibrio fischeri) sugar & amino acids. In exchange, the bacteria emanate just enough light to match the moon's rays, rendering the squid virtually invisible at night
P9aE TIL every year, Norway gives a giant christmas tree to the people of London in gratitude for Englands help during WW2
4E8b TIL there is a $300,000 watch that doesn’t tell time, but it does tell you whether it’s day or night.
KJLw TIL that in 1966 and 1967, soldiers testing Agent Orange in Canada were told the chemical was completely safe and sprayed it on each other to cool off.
pYyO4 TIL - Computers were people (mostly women) up until WWII. Teams of people, often women from the late nineteenth century onwards, were used to undertake long and often tedious calculations.