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Today I learned that these emojis 🙉🙈🙊 are based off the three wise monkeys

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GY8QQ TIL Disney's Jungle Cruise ride was built in a lot full of orange trees. Some of them had to be removed to make way for construction and they tagged them with red and green to know which ones to keep, but the bulldozer operator was color blind and removed them all.
4XOgb TIL this 17-year-old boy built a nuclear reactor in his mom's backyard in 1994 and made the neighborhood radioactive
e7ag TIL 666 is not the number of the beast, it’s 616 and was changed in later versions of the bible to mirror the number of Jesus, 888
Oo6B6 TIL of Narcisse Pelletier, a French cabin boy who was abandoned by his ship’s crew in north-east Australia in 1858. He was rescued by an Aboriginal family and went on to live with the Uutaalnganu people for the next 17 years until he was kidnapped by an English crew and returned to France in 1875.
WaEN TIL in 1880 Alex Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, also invented the photophone, a device that transmits sound using visible light. Although he called it his greatest invention, it wasn’t until the 1980s, over a century later, that it precursed fibre optics, the backbone of the modern Internet