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TIL About Queen Califia - The Woman California is Named After

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WkkxX TIL That function of the stripes of the zebra is to give it a form of security through obscurity by camouflaging it against the other zebras not against the grass.
Rrj6 TIL Steve Jobs was the “anonymous party” that sold 1.5 million shares of Apple stock in 1997 causing Apple to hit a 12-year low in stock price. That event lead to a boardroom coup of CEO Gil Amelio and placed Steve Jobs as new CEO of Apple.
loR1G TIL, former Air Force Capt. Robert Salas, who was at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana in 1967 when 10 ICMs he was overseeing suddenly became deactivated - at the same time base security informed him of a mysterious red glowing object in the sky
6918m TIL there is a Poison Book Project dedicated to identifying and cataloging antique books that were made with poisonous substances (such as arsenic in the color "Paris Green") to improve the awareness and safe handling of these books.
yVbye TIL Shahtoosh, the most expensive fabric on earth is totally illegal to own