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TIL: The wave that rolls onto a beach is called swash

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looga TIL in 1966 Elliot See and Charles Basset, two Project Gemini Astronauts, died by crashing their T-38 jet into the building that housed the very spacecraft they were to have flown into orbit.
b6rpp TIL of the ATU Index, a system for classifying folktales from around the world by cross-culturally recurrent elements. The system now includes such types as "Persecuted Heroine", "Animal Bride", or "The Cat as Helper".
Kj6J TIL that there are studies which suggest a correlation between sleep deprivation and an increased desire to eat poorly and decreased self control over eating impulses.
QJYMX TIL that Star Trek: The Next Generation was to include dolphins and whales as crewmembers but the idea proved too expensive to film and was stopped except for mentions of Cetacean Operations.
M7MkB TIL female marmosets are more likely to commit infanticide when they're pregnant and getting close to giving birth to increase their own baby's odds of having a successful life