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TIL the word "cyanide" traces its origin to the color cyan since hydrogen cyanide was called "blue acid"

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MeQAW TIL “King” in a snake’s name signifies that it preys on other snakes and that the king cobra is so named not because it is a cobra but because it typically hunts cobras
P11kZ TIL About the Resolute Desk, which was built from the scrap of the HMS Resolute. It has been used by most Presidents since 1880.
Er8d TIL The president of France said “the Germans … were actually victims of Nazi rule” and that “They were led into a war which was not theirs and which would have never been theirs.”
1a9md TIL of the Latin phrase "Damnatio memoriae" meaning "condemnation of memory", indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts, including the destruction of depictions, the removal of names from inscriptions and documents, and even large-scale rewritings of history.
X0JR6 TIL Payload specialists are not part of the regular NASA astronaut corps, relatively unknown to the public, and often flying only single missions