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TIL the protein that makes lobsters blue before cooking is called “Crustacyanin”

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JYmEQ TIL Paul Van Doren, one of the founders of shoe company Vans, dropped out of school at the age of 14, when he was in the eighth grade. Interested in horses, he went to the race tracks every day. His mother then insisted that he get a job in a shoe factory.
x0pD TIL That there is a 30-foot tree trunk known as the “Old Man of the Lake” that has been floating vertically in Oregon’s Crater Lake for nearly 120 years. In 1938 they tracked the tree trunk’s movement and discovered that it had traveled a total distance of over 60 miles in just under 3 months.
R7nZ9 TIL that in the Battle of Shiloh there was a strange phenomenon of soldiers having wounds that glow in the dark, because they the wounds were infected with a type of luminescent bacteria.
9vB7 TIL There is a Japanese legend of a completely enclosed ship that washed ashore with a young woman inside that spoke a foreign language with a hairstyle that can’t be found in any literature.
9YxlB TIL in 1615, Icelanders killed dozens of Spanish whalers after one of the whalers stole a fish from a native. Until 2015, it was legal for Icelanders to kill any Basque on sight.