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TIL that baby squirrels are called kittens

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8ybb TIL Emmy was the ship’s cat on the RMS Empress of Ireland. She never missed a voyage. However, on 28 May 1914, Emmy tried to escape the ship. The crew could not coax her aboard and the Empress left without her, which was regarded as a terrible omen. Early the next morning the Empress sank.
E1lmW TIL that Dynamite and TNT are actually different kinds of explosives, the former one having Nitroglycerin in its compounds. The common misconception of both being the same likely comes from pop culture references.
p8A1A TIL When a 39-year old James Watson lectured at the Lindau Meeting in 1967, he was the second youngest Nobel Laureate to do so. The youngest, Rudolf Mößbauer, Nobel Laureate in Physics 1961, gave his first Lindau lecture at the unusually low age of 36
R7Dvl TIL the black paint band around a windshield is actually there to keep the sun from degrading the windshield adhesive
6D98 TIL that NFL player Antonio Cromartie has 10 children from 8 different women and despite getting a vasectomy is expecting twins with his wife. Several of the other women keep in touch and most of the moms are on board for a reality show about the situation.