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TIL That car manufacturers adapted the WWI "Dazzle" camouflage technique that was used on ships, for their cars. They regularly use it to hide the finer details of prototype vehicles.

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dDkJZ Til about Eben Byers, an early-1900s golfer who died after drinking over a thousand doses of Radithor, a "medicine" laced with radium.
VMe8B TIL the neolithic cave of Scaloria has a basin carved into the bedrock, with pottery placed on top of the stalagmites surrounding it. 70 pots were recovered, some still sitting in place after 7,000 years. The whole scene is looked over by a lone skull.
PYoZZ TIL that there is still a passenger ocean liner in operation. The Queen Mary 2 offers a regular service from New York City and Southampton, England. It is the only passenger ocean liner in service designed primarily for travel, rather than the leisure of a cruise ship.
ADPZn TIL Elephants are known to take a great interest in the bones of their deceased and to mourn for dead relatives and Magpies have been observed burying their dead under twigs of grass
VBonp TIL That when pet rats are happy, they will boggle, which is when their eyes pop out of their head while their teeth chatters