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TIL The most powerful punch in the animal kingdom belongs to the Mantis shrimp

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Eg1K7 TIL that until the 16th century, sharks were called "sea dogs", the word "shark" most likely comes from the Dutch schurk, meaning "scoundrel", from which "loan shark" derives. In other words, sharks are probably named after loan sharks and not the other way around.
G5Gj TIL American soldier Hugh Thompson stopped the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War by threatening to fire on his own men if they didn’t stop killing innocent Vietnamese civilians for no reason.
yQE9e TIL On Oct 30, 2005, Rosa Parks, civil rights pioneer, was mourned when her casket was placed in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for two days. She was the first woman and the second African-American to lie in state there. She was the 31st person and the first American not a U.S. government official.
yQEme TIL that, on the 90s show "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" the powder thrown on the fire to make it roar was Coffee-Mate. This is demonstrated in the Hulu documentary "The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story"
nWBoG TIL that the first U.S. presidential candidate to be assassinated was Joseph Smith, who founded Mormonism.