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TIL Navy SEALs are issued/wear Chuck Taylors

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8exEG TIL the derogatory term of "Indians" for indigenous people came from Christopher Columbus thinking America was "The Indies"
wlPM TIL some large telescopes use liquid mercury for a reflective mirror instead of glass. The rotating liquid assumes the paraboloidal shape regardless of the container’s shape and has a much lower cost than traditional glass mirrors.
N75V1 TIL that the Rare Earth hypothesis states that the origin of life on Earth required an improbable combination of astrophysical, as well as geological events in order to occur, and will likely not happen again in the Universe.
0dEkp TIL Rectal temperature is a method coroners can use to determine time of death
rmjM TIL that the Georgian word Shemomedjamo means “to eat past the point of fullness because the food tastes so good”. It roughly translates to “I accidentally ate the whole thing".