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TIL The word blimp is an onomatopoeia for the sound it makes when you flick the side if the balloon.

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8eM7L TIL that dinosaur soft tissues and cells really do preserve in fossil bones. Maybe even proteins! A newly peer-reviewed “chemical framework”, based heavily on organic geochemistry, has been proposed that plausibly explains this phenomenon. Science fiction looks like it’s becoming reality.
Jlev TIL Max Woosnam captained Manchester City football club and England, scored a century at Lord’s, played golf off scratch, won Wimbledon and Olympic gold in tennis, made a 147 break at snooker and beat Charlie Chaplin in table tennis with a butter knife.
WkwYo TIL A penguin species that lived around 37m years ago was nearly 7 foot tall
ADd6g TIL that eating horse meat, while relatively common in Continental Europe, is seen as taboo in English-speaking countries
6LZX TIL there are only 2 countries in the world whose flags contain neither red, white, nor blue: Jamaica and Mauritania