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TIL about Frances Glessner Lee, Harvard Professor, considered the “Mother of forensic science.” As fresh crime scenes were difficult to get for study, she created dioramas of meticulous detail based on actual crimes. Including body position, blood splatter, etc. The dioramas are still in use today.

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X9Mj TIL A sleeping Killer Whale (Orca) pod (approx. 6-30 whales in a pod) breathes in unison - they form a tight circle, then surface for air and re-submerge as one, while sleeping!
BVOx TIL that frogs don’t have the ability to swallow, so to get food down their throat, they do ‘the blink’: whereby their eyes sink back in their head and push the food down.
MeWpV TIL about Walter White -- no, not the Breaking Bad Walter White -- but Walter Francis White, a Black American NAACP activist who infiltrated hate groups because he was light skinned and investigated lynchings. He was instrumental in setting up the NAACP fund which fought segregation.
GYrK4 TIL that in a survey of the most intimate brand, Generation Z ranked Xbox, Spotify, and Sephora as their top 3; while Millennials ranked PlayStation, Amazon, and Target as their top 3 (divided by gender, men ranked PlayStation, Xbox, and YouTube; and women ranked Walmart, Target, and Disney)
GYdl5 TIL that fruit punch was invented as an alternative to beer by men working for the British East India Company. This is because the beer on their ships went bad when they reached the Indian Ocean. They ended up using rum, fruit, and spices available in their new location to create punch.