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

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VMe5k TIL For the Ancient Greeks, the word Barbarian (Bárbaros) originally meant anyone who didn't speak Greek. They would imitate other languages using onomatopoeia "bar bar bar." Even Romans were considered to be barbarians by Ancient Greek standards.
gMoM4 TIL that sausages are older than the Bible. The oldest works of the Bible were written 3,400 years ago while the first-ever reference to sausages was in the 4,000 year old texts from Mesopotamia.
nW4LP TIL about Frieda Caplan, a pioneer in the world of produce who built a successful business in the 1960s by promoting items that, at the time, were relatively unheard of in the U.S. such as mangoes, shallots, and a New Zealand fruit originally called "Chinese gooseberry," which she dubbed the kiwi.
neJWb TIL jumps are classified by what kind of foot transfer happens. You hop on one foot, you leap from one foot to the other. Jumping is two feet to two feet. Assemble is jumping from two feet but landing on one, and Sissonne is jumping from one foot and landing on two.
Yp40A TIL about the huge luxury houseboat industry on the massive rice paddy network in Kerala India