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TIL: Great White Sharks congregate in the middle of the pacific ocean in an area known as the White Shark Cafe

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9V56 TIL the creation of Daft Punk’s name originated from a British journalist calling their original band, Darlin’, “a bunch of daft punk”. The third member of Darlin’, not liking the new more-electronic vibe, left and formed the band Phoenix.
epVO5 TIL that the word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in his book 'If I Ran the Zoo'.
OoEOL TIL a Banned Singaporean martial arts film from 1973 was remastered & screened in 2017 & is now on YouTube after 45 years.
xVKYo Today I learned that the Scoville scale which is used to figure out the heat of any given pepper is determined by the number of dilutions of sugar water needed to eliminate the heat.
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