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mxm8v TIL that the scientific name of the protein Titin is 189,819 letters long and would take about 3.5 hours to read outloud
D1mrV TIL that locusts are actually grasshoppers. In certain conditions, their behavior changes to a solitary and timid grasshopper to a gregarious locust. This is due to the release of serotonin in their body.
NXGZP TIL of Ernst Haeckel a German scientist who in 1914 was the first person to call The First World War, The First World War.
MvKK TIL that two people died inside of a flight simulator inside of a flight safety building because an airplane crashed into it.
MeAk7 TIL in 2016, residents of Barrow, Alaska voted to change the name of the city back to its original Inupiaq name, Utqiaġvik