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TIL that porgs were in The Last Jedi because it was easier to create a new species than to digitally remove the puffins that actually lived on the island

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OYPL TIL While being tasty, honey is also one of natures most effective aticeptics killing drug resistant bacteria in addition to most normal kinds. Honey also keeps its properties for thousands of years requiring only to be heated up and used as normal.
oBbkr TIL water is not colorless. The pure water has a slight blue color that becomes a deeper green as the thickness of the observed sample increases. The blue hue of the water is an intrinsic property and is caused by selective absorption and scattering of white light.
l7OJN TIL that we should not feed bread to birds on a regular basis or as their regular diet. It provides little to no nutritional value, which may also lead to airplane wing, also known as angel wing disease.
9kJB TIL during the Chernobyl, three engineers volunteered to dive into a pool of radioactive hydrogen peroxide with no working flashlights and open a pipe to stop the reactor from exploding. They succeeded.
LQRnZ TIL Gordon Lightfoot's The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" was the first commercially released song to be digitally recorded... in 1976!