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TIL that at about thirty feet underwater, blood appears green, due to red light having been filtered out by the water

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RGnj TIL NASA was fined $400 by Australia in 1979 for littering when pieces of Skylab crashed into the Australian outback. No one was injured. The fine was unpaid until Californian radio DJ raised funds from his listeners and paid NASA’s fine 20 years later in 1999.
0dEVM TIL the the longest running scientific experiment is the pitch drop experiment that started in 1927
0dew1 TIL that the youngest person to ever achieve nuclear fusion was just 12-years-old.
OQDL TIL a 1913 storm called the White Hurricane “battered four of the five lakes, killed 250 people, sunk 12 ships and caused $120 million in damage. “It was the most ferocious storm ever recorded on the Great Lakes at that time or since.”
P7eL TIL that China only holds 8% of US debt.