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TIL that farmed Salmon are fed colourings to make their flesh pink, given they don’t feed on the natural krill and shrimp they do in the wild

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WkeLB TIL Seven’s a lucky number if you need to restart the whole internet. Only seven people from the ICANN can restore it in case of a catastrophe. The DNSSEC root key holders would be summoned to a base in the United States to oversee a reboot of the system, using their keys to enable it.
0d0Zv TIL If you build trust with someone over years, you can destroy it in a moment
gMPQW TIL of La Mancha Negra, a black substance that has oozed from roads in Caracas, Venezuela since 1986 causing multiple car accidents and claiming thousands of lives. After years of study and millions of dollars spent to identify it, there is no definitive explanation.
7rLP7 TIL lobsters have the enzyme called "telomerase" which stops DNA strands called "telomeres" from damage as new cells are made. Other organisms' telomeres erode with age, but lobsters can theoretically live forever, because their ability to create perfect copies of cells never erodes.
WkGG4 TIL the first subminiature luxury (spy) item camera was produced in 1936 by Latvia while most publicly available cameras were huge.