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TIL that the common saying to identify a poisonous snake, ‘Red touches black, friend of Jack. Res touches yellow will kill a fellow”, is only applicable in North America

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VMnw4 TIL: The term Blitzkrieg was mostly adopted by western journalists and never used by the Wehrmacht as an official military term. Hitler called it 'A completely idiotic word' and some senior officers even disputed the idea that it was a military concept.
n0P9 TIL Al Pacino boycotted the 1973 Academy Awards because he was insulted at being nominated for Best Supporting Actor in The Godfather, noting that he had more screen time than his co-star and Best Actor winner Brando
GYReG TIL that NASA has been launching jellyfish into space since the 90’s. Originally 2,478 were sent up and there were 60,000 orbiting Earth by the mission’s end 20 years later. The jellyfish that have returned reportedly ‘hate life on Earth.’
E1bxx TIL former Russian president Yeltsin got drunk and wandered into the streets of Washington DC in his underwear, trying to get a pizza.
Y7yJG TIL the Ancient Egyptian Religion outlived the (Western) Roman Empire. Worship continued at the Philae Temple Complex until AD 537, more than sixty years after the Fall of Rome.