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TIL that Colombian actress Sofia Vergara is naturally blonde, but is usually asked to dye her hair brown to appear like a more “typical” Latina.

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OOWX TIL that Google has been using money-shifting strategies known to lawyers as the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich” to help reduce its tax rate down to 2.4 percent.
8a9YX TIL about a fatal submarine accident from 1963. A nuclear sub, the USS Thresher (SSN-593), sank 610 m (2,000 ft) imploding in 0.1 seconds killing all 128 crew members. During a failed deep dive test, its theorized the sub lost power and its vital ballast systems froze, rendering the ship unusable.
PYGxJ TIL that Islam is younger than Christianity.
P1x7J TIL that when a hermit crab outgrows its shell but finds one that's too big for it, it will wait for other hermit crabs to arrive and test out the shell. The crabs line up from smallest to largest so that all of them can exchange shells (though fights over the shells may occur)
0wdMy TIL Western sperm counts aren't actually dropping, instead testers sampled badly and made other errors