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TIL 30 feet underwater there is no red light, so blood appears green

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D6jD TIL there’s a grocery store in Berlin where items are sold without any brands or packaging. Customers are expected to bring their own containers, which are then weighed to determine the final price.
ejYg TIL There’s a prison in Finland where the only thing keeping the inmates in is a yellow picket fence
loleB TIL the name “Imogen” may well be a typo. Its first recorded use is in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline. It is thought that he wrote “Innogen”, a common Celtic name at the time. The printers misread the “nn” as “m” and thus a new name was born!
yV5Ba TIL the last full moon of the winter season is called the Worm Moon because it is when beetle larvae begin to appear after emerging from their winter hideouts... Bonus TIL the Farmer's Almanac has names for every full moon of the year.
Ooa7Y TIL when the inventors of Silly String were trying to sell their idea to Wham-O, one of them sprayed the can all over the person who was meeting with them and all over their office. They were asked to leave, however, a day later received a telegram asking them to send 24 cans for a test market.