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TIL that originaly, the Celcius temperture scale went backwards, with 0°C being boiling and 100°C freezing water

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e0Kx5 TIL Chris Morris, from the IT Crowd, has been fired from many jobs due to the many pranks he has pulled during his radio career, including filling one of the radio booths with helium, causing the newsreader to report the news in an extremely high-pitched voice.
Lkgkm TIL camouflage does not work on color-blind people and for this reason some were picked as snipers
AXZn TIL That contrary to popular belief, serial killers generally do not have high IQs. The median IQ is 89 which is towards the lower end of average. The exception is killers who use bombs who have an average IQ of about 140.
NvpM TIL that K2, with a 25% death rate, is more dangerous to climb than Mt. Everest, where only about 3% of climbers are killed.
b94v4 TIL of Merck, the 352 year old pharmaceutical company responsible for the introduction of cocaine, morphine and invention of MDMA