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TIL Thailand's aircraft carrier, HTMS Chakri Naruebet, was dubbed the "Thai-tanic" as being little more than a royal yacht.

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Q5Bd TIL Roughly 114 prizes worth $1 million or more went unclaimed in 2015. In fact, about $2 billion in lottery prizes go unclaimed every year.
vx4x TIL a parisian gastronomist invented the “rôti sans pareil”, a warbler, stuffed inside a bunting, inside a lark, inside a thrush, inside a quail…lapwing, plover, partridge, woodcock, teal, guinea fowl, duck, chicken, pheasant, goose, turkey, bustard. A 17-bird stuffed meal.
DQXAe TIL about the Boquila trifoliolata, also called the chameleon vine. It is the only plant known to engage in mimetic polymorphism, it can mimic the leaves of multiple host plants. Once the vines approach a host tree, the leaves begin to change their size, shape, color,... to match the host plant
MeAYW TIL that using the red cross as a symbol of health in a video game or any other commercial product technically constitutes a violation of the Geneva conventions.
7XaZ TIL the human brain doesn’t perceive total blackness when there is no light present; it instead perceives Eigengrau, a shade of dark gray, because contrast is more important to the visual system than absolute brightness