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KYO8J TIL that it is 100% legal to leave/abandon your baby at a firestation in the USA due to safe haven laws.
pn5O TIL that the symbols used to censor swear words are called grawlixes
M7Jga TIL surgical scrubs are green and blue to provide eye relief and a visual contrast to the pinks and reds the surgeon is focusing on
9YEPX TIL the HMS Perseus submarine, was hit and sunk on December 6, 1941. John Capes and 3 others opened the escape hatch, and using an early type of oxygen breather, swam 170ft to the surface. Capes was the only survivor. He then spent 18 months on a Greek island evading capture from the Italian army.
v7ex TIL At any time, it is estimated that there are some 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive.