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TIL Although very rare there have been people who have been swallowed whole by whales and lived

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R7M16 TIL Einstein was still working on his Theory of Everything while laying on his deathbed, in the last hours of his life, while fading in and out of consciousness.
rB5y TIL The last time humans traveled beyond Low Earth Orbit was Apollo 17 in 1972.
GAVMJ TIL Apples are harvested only once a year in the United States, from August to November. If you are eating an apple in the winter, spring, or summer, and that apple came from the supermarket, it was picked the previous fall—as long as 10 months ago, if it’s July 1.
PWPO TIL that farmed salmon actually has white flesh because they don’t get to eat much krill and shellfish. Salmon farmers add the organic pigment that causes the orange flesh in wild salmon, astaxanthin, to the salmon’s feed because consumers are reluctant to purchase white-fleshed salmon.
VBGLZ TIL: In honor of National Stout Day, the best selling stout ale in the world, Guinness, is actually ruby red in color.