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TIL that farmed salmon is dyed pink & orange because consumers are unlikely to purchase grey salmon

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N7N4M TIL that a 6-ton night pearl worth 2.2 billion yuan (331 million US dollars) was discovered in Northern China's Inner Mongolia. It is mainly composed of a fluorite mineral and emits translucent crystal ray in the darkness.
GYaGg TIL when Winston Churchill started to use the V for Victory hand sign, he initially did so with the palm facing inward, unaware this was an offensive gesture in lower classes. He was basically flipping people off.
LkAa9 TIL ladybugs can get std’s
eoNn TIL that in 1954, the CIA launched a covert operation that overthrew the democratically-elected leader of Guatemala and replaced him with a right-wing authoritarian president, beginning over four decades of civil war and political repression
NpmJ TIL a gay bar in Australia was granted an exemption to anti-discrimination laws in 2011, allowing it to ban women because they made the men uncomfortable. The Human Rights Commissioner supported the exemption.