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TIL water is intrinsically blue.

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691L8 TIL that one of Britain’s top post-war writers, Benjamin Zephaniah, declined an OBE appointment (Order of the British Empire), stating the honors were "a legacy of colonialism." Besides being a renowned poet, Zephaniah also appeared in “Peaky Blinders” for about 9 years as Jeremiah Jesus
78pYO TIL that after being fatally injured in the ring, Welsh boxer Johnny Owen was found to have an unusually delicate skull.
b9Qm7 TIL that Jet Tila made the world's largest stir fry.
8a9Ka TIL - The marine whose story inspired A Few Good Men was murdered execution style and his killer was never caught.
W7BEX TIL that Judaism has a roughly 2500-year-old prayer for using the bathroom in which you thank God for giving you the right number of orifices and not sealing them or making new ones