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TIL that Blackie the ship's cat on the HMS Prince of Wales survived the sinking of the vessel that claimed 327 lives

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l78WB TIL about head cheese, a meat jelly that originated in Europe and is specialty in Louisiana. It is made from the head of a calf or pig and, despite its name, does not contain dairy products.
oEx7 TIL of the World Health Organization “Cocaine Project,” which was banned from publication because it concluded that, “occasional cocaine use does not typically lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems,” among other positives
x6Vag TIL: The color "Jet Black" comes from an gemstone called jet. Jet is extremely dark, and so jet black refers that dark.
MeXmm TIL the mutant heroine, Kitty Pryde was named by comic book artist John Byrne in honor of a former classmate to whom he'd promised to name his first original comic character after.
0deb5 TIL that one of the first devices made to estimate electric voltage, the "Frog Galvanoscope" of the late 1700s, was named after its crude method of attaching electrical wires directly to the exposed nerve of a recently skinned frog leg, which would jerk suddenly in response to electric current.