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TIL of the "Order of the Occult hand," a secret society of journalists that slip the meaningless and telltale phrase "It was as if some occult hand had…" in print as an inside joke.

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1mM7 TIL that platypus will attack hidden batteries in their habitat after sensing their voltage and believing them to be prey.
7rDBr TIL about the Fenn Treasure. Allegedly hidden among the Rocky mountains, it has an estimated value of 2 million dollars and 5 people have died looking for it.
pY0gb TIL individual brain size can vary almost twofold among typically developing humans
N7LOE TIL that the intestines (Goldbeater’s skins) of 250,000-450,000 cows where needed to build one WW1 Zeppelin.
5Y05B TIL that a 2017 study about fitness trackers found higher rates of error when the trackers were used by people with darker skin tones.