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TIL you have to cook lobsters alive because they are full of toxic bacteria that multiply rapidly after death

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vVb4 TIL Most people dream in color, but those that grew up watching black and white television often dream in black and white.
XENk6 Today I Learned that the worlds biggest collection of Nash Motors automobiles(about 268 of them) rests 450 feet under water in Lake Michigan when the ship carrying them was struck by another and sank.
OYNg TIL The shortest regularly scheduled flight in the world is 1.7 miles and takes less than two minutes from takeoff to landing.
0wALj TIL Napoleon III's Y-chromosome (which is inherited father to son) does not match other member's of the Bonaparte family implying his legal father was not his father and he was not a Bonaparte. There had been rumors during his lifetime that he was illegitimate due his mother's affairs.