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TIL We are milking the blue blood from the 450.000.000 year old Horseshoe Crab for medical use while they are in danger of going extinct.

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0wJ4j TIL the first ever synthetically produced color pigment, Egyptian blue, was created around 2,200 B.C. In 2006 scientists discovered it glows under fluorescent lights, allowing us to detect it on artifacts where it is no longer visible to the naked eye.
ADrW4 TIL that coaches in college sports are significantly more abusive, mean, and aggressive than people in the military
Rxoj TIL fly ash emitted by a coal power plant carries 100 times more radiation into the surrounding enviornment than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
EVEP TIL : Fitness Guru Richard Simmons has not been seen in public since January of last year
b9dYE TIL when Michael Bay was 15 George Lucas made him work on the storyboard to Raiders of the Lost Ark and after seeing the movie in theater he decided to become a film director.