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TIL polar bears aren’t white. But Each hair is a clear hollow tube, which makes them look white

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nWlMd TIL The expression ‘sweet Fanny Adams’ was coined in 1869 by sailors in the Royal Navy, whose macabre humour likened the contents of their tinned meat to Fanny’s remains. From this it gradually became a euphemism for ‘sweet nothing’.
dmMd TIL Liam Neeson worked as a forklift operator for Guinness, truck driver, assistant architect and an amateur boxer before being discovered as an actor
5Y0aD TIL Isaac Newton wrote thousands of pages on his interpretation of the Bible, and in those manuscripts he predicted that the world would end no sooner than the year 2060.
9AKX TIL Gary Burghoff (who played Radar on MASH) has a deformed left hand. He hid it throughout his entire run on the series because it would have made Radar unfit for military duty.
mVLR TIL there is an extinct genus of ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, which stood up to 3 metres tall, weighed as much as 540 kg and have actually been contemporary with modern humans for tens of thousands of years. (Sorry if repost)