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4kAxR TIL Humans are better at smelling petrichor, the scent of rain-soaked earth, than sharks are at detecting blood in the water.
e04Ok TIL that Jamaica is the only country in the world whose flag does not contain the colors red, white or blue.
6E8WZ TIL that a bakers dozen is comprised of 13 because in medieval England there were laws that related the price of bread to the price of the wheat used to make it. Bakers caught cheating customers by overpricing undersized loaves were punished. For fear of coming up short, they would throw in extra.
OG6Oe TIL The black doomsday ship in the James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies (1997,) was an actual piece of top-secret hardware built for DARPA and the US Navy by Lockheed. Sea Shadow (IX-529)
XJXr TIL 71 years ago today Polish Jews in in the Warsaw ghetto rose up in armed resistance against their Nazis oppressors.