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TIL A Portugese Man of War is not a jellyfish; it’s a colony of thousands of individual animals called “zooids”

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R7XBw TIL that medical examiners and coroners determine the cause of death. Medical examiners are medically trained but coroners aren't required to be medically trained. In many states, you only have to be of legal age and have no felony convictions to be elected coroner.
69BLw TIL that the English language doesn’t have any official authority or academy
e06o4 TIL the star-shaped base of the Statue of Liberty was originally a fort built to defend against the British
gMm5y TIL that the founder of the first permanent European settlement in Greenland, Erik the Red, only decided to settle there because he had been banished for murder from all the other places he had lived.
GYG1J TIL that the wonderful smell that happens after a rain shower is not one, but three distinct smells: ozone caused by lightning ripping through oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere, spores produced by common ground bacteria, and oils produced by plants during dry spells as an evolutionary safeguard.