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TIL that in the mid-18th century, Americans were so used to yellow milk, tinted with lead chromate to disguise the bluishness of watered-down dairy, that people refused to purchase white milk, thinking it had been coloured

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l7eNN TIL sun fish (Mola) are the largest bony fish and despite weighing up to 2700kg (6000 lb) they can breach the surface up to 3m (10 ft) in the air
x61Vg TIL Miami has an underwater graveyard, Neptune Memorial Reef. Cremated remains are mixed with concrete and formed into sculptures, with a copper plate marking each sculpture, so that family can dive and know where to visit their loved one’s specific resting place
WZZB TIL that in 2002 the US passed a law allowing it to invade the Netherlands to prevent US military personnel to be tried by the International Criminal Court
gM7ky TIL - The earliest known written use of the term “motherfucker” was from a Texas court case in 1889. Witnesses described a defendant being called a “God damned mother-f—cking, bastardly son-of-a-bitch.” Mother-fucking was the only expletive to get censored in the court transcript.
jQNj TIL that nematodes (C. elegans) from an experiment aboard the US space shuttle Columbia were found alive in the wreckage of the shuttle disaster in 2003.