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TIL Sea-Monkeys appeared to “hatch instantly” when you emptied the egg packet into the water because the “Water Purifier” packet used 24 hours earlier also contained eggs.

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nW4gG TIL South America's Inca civilization was better at skull surgery than Civil War doctors
yVJ1X TIL: Sakamoto Ryōma was an influential samurai who loved the American system and encouraged the Imperial Court to copy it. On the first assassination attempt, he fought off his assailants with a Smith and Wesson revolver. However, he was caught unprepared the second time.
vPOl7 TIL During the 2000's, Google, Apple, Adobe, Intel, and several other mega corporations had a mutual agreement not to hire each other's employees in order to keep salaries low. This led to a 400 mil class action lawsuit.
5Dj9 TIL that in 2009 two nuclear submarines (French and British) collided into one another in the Atlantic… because they couldn’t detect one another.
xAX1 TIL Nestle’s enormous California (water) bottling plant is on an Indian reservation so they don’t have to adhere to government water restrictions during droughts or report on how much water they’re actually using.