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TIL most worms are actually a bright pink, but look brown because of their habitat and diet.

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MwBB TIL that the entirety of the world’s population(6.7 billion in 2011) would be able to fit into a city the size of Texas if the population density was the same as New York.
jgpQ TIL that reindeer are unable to walk and pee at the same time, so they have to take a bathroom break roughly every 6 miles. The distance between stops is so regular that in Finnish, this distance is known as “poronkusema” or “reindeer’s piss” and was a description of distances in the countryside.
PYGye TIL The world's worst shark attack occurred on July 30, 1945, when the SS Indianapolis was torpedoed by Japanese submarines. Nearly 900 men went overboard - only 317 were rescued four days later, with hundreds directly killed by sharks
pQgp TIL: That the Ring Binder and Hole punch were invented by the same person in the same year. German Friedrich Soennecken in 1886.
LkXmr TIL of pro-butter Senator Gordon Roselip. In a 1955 Wisconsin senatorial blind taste test Roselip preferred margarine, insisting it was butter. It later transpired that Roselip’s wife, worried about his heart, had for years been substituting yellow margarine for butter at the Senator’s dinner table.