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TIL toasters cause nearly 800 deaths annually due to electrocution and fires.

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OoWL1 TIL The color purple is a non-spectral color. Meaning it is always a combination of two different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation.
696G7 TIL humans in the form we are now are up to 300,000 years old. Meaning thousands ands thousands of couples had to procreate for you to exist right now.
OKBX TIL Marine biologists were on a nighttime dive searching for biofluorescent sea creatures in the coral reefs near the Solomon Islands when a hawksbill sea turtle glided in front of their cameras. The turtle was glowing green and red – the first biofluorescent reptile ever encountered in the wild.
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