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TIL Eclipses May Generate Atmospheric Shocks

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oRooR TIL The Hippopotamus produces its own sunscreen through a viscous secretion across the skin, originating from subdermal glands. This secretion starts clear, within minutes polymerizing to a red, then brown color - it also has antimicrobial properties.
VBND8 TIL that Charles Domery, an 18th-century Polish soldier, had such an extraordinary appetite that while imprisoned in England, he reportedly ate 174 cats in a single year, along with rats, candles, and even a severed human leg.
LQeRP TIL The U.S. Navy estimates that heavy barnacle growth on ships increases weight and drag by as much as 60 percent, resulting in as much as a 40 percent increase in fuel consumption
yJLw TIL that in the 50’s one of the major attractions at Las Vegas was watching atomic bomb tests nearby. For a time Vegas was marketed as ‘Atomic City.’
WPO4 TIL that Margaret Cho was rejected by a producer on her show All American Girl. Still heart broken, she looked him up 17 years later to find out that he had bludgeoned his wife to death and put her in his attic where she partially mummified. She wrote a song about him.