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TIL Oceanographers aren’t sure if blue crustaceans are actually rare, or if social media has simply made their existence easier to report and document.

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N8aJ TIL King Leonidas of Sparta was 60 years old at the Battle of Thermopylae.
MeZwV TIL when John Lennon was having his toilet replaced, one of the builders, John Hancock, decided to store it in his shed. About 40 years later, in 2010 Lennon's lavatory was auctioned off for £9500.
VNQB TIL a study conducted by King’s College London shows that babies who are fed food containing peanuts are less likely to develop an allergy to peanuts.
p8aK4 TIL that Richard Nixon got drunk and ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea before sobering and cancelling it
gXm4 TIL that in 1963, Colonel Sanders appeared on What’s My Line… but not as a celebrity guest. His company already had over 900 outlets worldwide, but the panelists didn’t recognise him or his line of work at all!