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TIL blood appears green if you’re deep enough underwater

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GAl41 TIL that some dinosaur fossils are radioactive due to being fossilized with uranium—the fossilization process tends to concentrate radioactive elements
KJY9 TIL that German journalists have a word, “widow shaking” for the practice of aggressively getting sob story material from relatives of disaster or crime victims.
VBJOm TIL that male dromedary camels have an organ called “dulla" they inflate from their mouth during mating season to assert dominance and attract females
oBdn8 TIL California's vehicle emission laws are stricter than those of the EPA. Cars made for sale in the US are made with those standards in mind so they can be sold all over. Often, the EPA adopts California's standards a few years after the state institutes them.
OkW4 TIL German scientists, during World War II, bureaucratically delayed the German A-bomb project until the Allies had won the war.