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TIL of gynandromorphism, a developmental phenomenon leading to half male / half female organisms

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e9bb TIL that Homer referred to the sea as “wine-dark” six times in his works and nobody’s really sure why (whether wine was blue, the sea was red, or Greeks were colorblind)
6M0Z TIL “not clapping hard enough” was one of the reasons Jang Sung-taek, former North Korean official, was executed for
rNGax TIL That worldwide the daily consumption of Coca Cola is at 2.6 billion servings, or approximately 11000 soft drinks per second.
Zggp TIL Doctors’ sloppy handwriting kills more than 7,000 people annually in the United States.
ZpvEB TIL there is an alligator at Gatorland in FL missing half its top jaw. After rehab they named her Jawlene as a nod to Dolly Parton and she is thriving!