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TIL A crocodile turned orange after attacking a filter in its enclosure.

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Oxae TIL Big Bird was supposed to be launched into space to encourage kid’s interest in space/NASA. Instead they went with a teacher named Christa McAuliffe, who unfortunately died when the Challenger Space Shuttle exploded during take off.
d8Gd TIL meteorites that fell on the early Earth brought reduced phosphorus to the planet. This allowed oxidation to phosphates, thus providing a mechanism for the generation of DNA and RNA.
eVvn TIL That Gutzon Borglum, the man responsible for creating Mt. Rushmore, one of America’s most recognizable monuments, was a leader in the Ku Klux Klan
lonvV TIL During negotiations for truce between North and South Korea, both parties would try to bring a bigger national flag than the other to each meeting. This continued until a special meeting was called to address the size of the flags, as they could no longer fit in the room.
yQp5X TIL "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" was first published in Japan because U.S. printers could not afford the holes and irregular pages.