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TIL that romans didnt have any word to define skin color
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TIL: Alien world blacker than coal, the darkest planet known, has been discovered in the galaxy.
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TIL that the concurrent Navy training and testing could potentially kill hundreds of whales and dolphins and disable thousands over the next five years.
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TIL that Vishakanyas or ‘Poison damsels" were girls who were used as assasins.They were made poisonous by exposing them to low-intensity poison from a very young age. Their body fluids would be “poisoned” and sexual contact would thus be lethal to other humans.
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TIL Simply calmly treading the water in a rip tide can return you to shore in 3 minutes, because rip currents are really whirlpools, according to an oceanography professor's study that sensors to analyze the flow of wave water. (Source: nps.edu, 2010)
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TIL Martin Luther King Jr. Plagiarized His Research Papers, Doctoral Dissertation, and Speeches