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TIL Jellyfish evaporate in the sun as they’re 98% water.

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l7ExB TIL there is a perfect condition German 88mm from WW2 abandoned on an Adriatic Island
awk00 TIL squirrels were originally placed in US cities as a way to reconnect city dwellers with nature
LngQ TIL: that when women were excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 in London and forced to sit in a “no speaking section”, William Lloyd Garrison, the conference’s keynote speaker, refused to give his speech and sat with the women, “dominating the convention without saying a word”.
R5ax1 TIL Blue eyes do not contain blue pigments. The color comes from structural color, there are small particles suspended within the fibrovasular structure of the stroma that cause blue light to scatter. This is an example of the Tyndall effect.
bY1p TIL There could be as many as 40 billion Earth-sized planets orbiting in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars and red dwarfs within the Milky Way.