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TIL Blue whale poop is bright neon orange, from the shells of the krill the whales eat.

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D16mD TIL that before Gene Roddenberry created "Star Trek", he survived three plane crashes (two as a passenger and one as a pilot; two of the crashes involved multiple fatalities) and also worked as a air crash investigator
Ekkx TIL that, to date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered.
8aBm8 TIL of Centralia, Pennsylvania a coal mining town in which its coal mine has been on fire since 1962 and still burns to this day.
WEWL TIL that shortly after completing ‘Toy Story’, the chief creative staff for Pixar got together for a lunch meeting in 1994 that would become one of the most defining moments in the studio’s history. The Pixar team came up with 4 movies in a single hour-long lunch.
a88Kb TIL that in 1995 when a lawsuit was brought against Shell Oil for the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 men in Nigeria, Shell settled out of court for $15.5 million.