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TIL Ferrari is the Italian equivalent of 'Smith', a metalworker (from Latin ferrum = iron)

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4Xaea TIL In 1996, the Vancouver Aquarium became the first in the world to pledge to never again capture a wild whale or dolphin. Its first killer whale was captured in 1964, making it the first in the world to study orcas under human care
W76dY TIL that the pathogen Streptococcus Group A literally wears the "skin" of red blood cells that it's killed, to camouflage itself from the immune system.
6EgwJ We are going to the moon again to make It a gas station for outer space. "The plan is to break down the lunar ice into hydrogen and oxygen and use those as the fuel propellant."
9w0Or TIL of Savitri Devi, a french born greek-italian hindu and ardent nazi who tried to combine hinduism and nazism and proclaimed Hitler to be an avatar of Vishnu. She was also an animals rights activist who believed that people who don't respect animals and nature "should be executed"
D1dxJ TIL that despite 12 indictments and several convictions of high level officials involved in the Iran-Contra scandal, all perpetrators were either pardoned or had sentences overturned resulting in no prison time. The only person to go to jail was a minister who stole a street sign in protest.