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TIL That Spiders Have Blue Blood Because In Spiders Oxygen Is Bound To Hemocyanin A Molecule That Contains Copper Instead Of Iron As In Humans

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PlYE TIL JFK’s last words to Jackie were, “Take off those glasses, Jackie.”
e0ygD TIL only 13% of Singaporeans can speak their national language, Malay. This also means that 87% cannot understand their own national anthem, which is in Malay! Instead, they speak an English-based creole known as Singlish.
6EVAQ TIL the phrase "Don't Mess with Texas" is actually the slogan of a no-littering campaign
dAkE TIL when cats are stalking their prey, they “chatter” their teeth because they are so intensely fixated on their prey that they are envisioning biting on them already. This is called: the “vacuum reaction”
PYrEe TIL that Queen Victoria was irritated at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her daughter Princess Victoria, who was the wife of the reigning German Emperor and hence an Empress - so the British government created for her the title of Empress of India