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TIL that ocean gets its smell from a compound called dimethylsulphide which is produced from microorganisms in ocean

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JlNl TIL that a politician in Japan was assassinated by yakuza shortly after he announced an investigation into millions of dollars of off-the-book spending. No other politican has resumed his investigation.
KYAO4 TIL that Victorians use to take family photos with their recently dead loves ones.
4XJlN TIL the US Air Force tested how cats react to being tossed in air in zero gravity. The experiment was documented in a 1947 bioastronautics research video which included slow-mo ejection-seat footage (of men, not cats). They also tested pigeons in zero gravity; some pigeons flew upside down.
4XwVN TIL The Commonwealth of Kentucky didn't take the word "darkies" out of their official state song until 1986.
nRoY TIL the Declaration of Independence refers to Native Americans as “the merciless Indian Savages”.