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TIL Hippo milk is pink.

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x6N81 TIL deuterium, one of the ingredients for nuclear fusion, is readily found in seawater and viewed as a potential fuel for a fusion reactor. A gallon of seawater can produce as much energy as 300 gallons of gasoline.
VMvw4 TIL, that despite being credited with "discovering America", Columbus never set foot on the continent of North America. The closest he got was Cuba and Puerto Rico.
16577 TIL that during World War II, a Great Dane named Juliana received the Blue Cross Medal for extinguishing an incendiary bomb by peeing on it.
Zpe0G TIL the unique way film stars talked in old Hollywood movies was due to them being taught the “Transatlantic accent” in film school; it was a mix of American and British accents made up for the upper classes
x6Pg TIL that Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin lost chess games to an 18th century wooden robot with a chessmaster hiding inside.