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

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vlvj TIL any member of the French Foreign Legion wounded while defending France can immediately apply for French citizenship as he is “French by spilled blood”
bkv4 TIL that death as a result of shaken vending machines is twice as common as death from a shark attack.
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BaVW TIL that Guy Fawkes, the guy many celebrate and honour as a rebel to the state, was in fact aiming an assassination in the name of religion to restore Catholicism to Britain, not simply rebelling against government power.