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TIL that the opposite of "déjà vu" is "jamai vu" -- the sensation that you know rationally that you should be familiar with a thing, but you have an eerie sensation that you are seeing the thing for the first time.

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Lmjr TIL On May 25th, 2015 a man discovered an orphaned baby moose in Yellowstone National Park in Montana. When he reported the calf to local authorities they shot the baby and blew up the carcasses of it, it’s dead mother and sibling to prevent grizzly bears from being drawn to the area.
xVV6D TIL the wreck of the Titanic is so deep in the ocean that there’s very little oxygen so it doesnt really rust. Instead it is being slowly consumed by anaerobic bacteria (a kind that doesn’t need oxygen to live). Within a few hundred years, a pile of iron ore will be all that remains of the titanic.
RY0j TIL that on August 11, 1984, Ronald Reagan joked about attacking the Soviet Union, not realizing that he was being recorded. He said “"My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
5VxWn Today I Learned Schweppes, the Oldest Soft Drinks Company on the World, was the Official Drink of the Great Exhibition of 1851, Held at the Crystal Palace, in Hyde Park, London.
lenG TIL a local street sweeper from Detroit, Michigan, managed to catch and save 2 babies falling from buildings in separate incidents 1 year apart from each other.