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TIL Paleontologist Jørn Hurum teamed up with artist Esther van Hulsen to paint an octopus with 95-million-year-old ink

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rRPG4 TIL Chance the Rapper continued his SNL skit character Lazlo Holmes, a hilarious uninformed Hockey announcer into a series of real interviews with NHL players and coaches.
GYkZ1 TIL that the longest ship ever built was the Seawise Giant, it was 1,500 foot long, it was longer than the Empire State building is high. It had a 36 tonne anchor and it weighed 564,000 tonnes. It doesn't exist anymore and was sold for scrap to a Indian breaking yard.
4XmY6 Today I learned that when the PBS Newshour lists their major financial contributors at the end of the program, the "Rosalind P. Walter" they thank is Rosie the Riveter.
ANZAl TIL about the "Sator Square". It contains a 5-word Latin palindrome, any which way you go. Or, it would, except the word “AREPO”, which appears nowhere else in Latin literature. Unlike the other words, it's definition is arguably lost to history.
a8DQo TIL: Fort Ross is a former Russian establishment and the southernmost Russian settlement in North America.