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TIL Raw Oysters Are Still Alive When You Eat Them

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kJGb5 TIL that there are two opposite 'colour schemes' for boat directions in the world: one where red marks starboard, and green marks port; and one where it is the opposite.
XaPr TIL of Bass Reeves. He was born into slavery, became one of the first black Deputy U.S. Marshals, arrested over 3000 felons, and may have been the inspiration for the character ‘The Lone Ranger’.
wLoVP TIL 8th President of the United States and first president to be born after the United States Declaration of Independence Martin Van Buren presidential pets where two tiger cubs given to him by the Sultan of Oman before Congress forced him to donate the tigers to the zoo.
VBW4D TIL the Allies fielded thousands of tanks by the end of World War I, a major technological breakthrough. The Germans deployed just 18.
wRJW TIL that Millennials Are Having Way Less Sex Than Their Parents and are twice as likely as the previous generation to be virgins