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TIL that horseshoe crabs have blue blood that is highly valued by the biotech industry and sells for $15,000 per quart (1 quart = roughly 1 liter).

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16pNV TIL Take Our Daughters To Work Day started nationally in 1993 to provide girls an opportunity to see real world role models. The program expanded focus to include sons in 2003.
r5v0 TIL that “with no special skill or expertise, Greg Packer has been quoted by media outlets nearly a thousand times… Greg’s campaign to be the most quoted man in news has been so successful that the Associated Press sent its staff a memo that essentially banned interviews with him”
K5wJ TIL that earlier in 2016, Sweden released a telephone number that would put you in touch with a random Swede. More than 32,000 Swedes agreed to take the calls by downloading an app, answering upwards of 180,000 calls from all over the world.
OYp6 TIL that armed citizens shoot and kill more criminals than police and have fewer incidents of mistakenly identifying the criminal.
GWBG TIL of a Russian scientist who in 1978 was hit in the head with a proton beam travelling close to the speed of light. Despite the fact that the beam tunnelled through his head and damaged brain tissue, he was still able to complete a Ph.D.