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TIL Sea otters have a skin pouch to store their favourite rocks

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eGBb TIL handling TNT turned female munition workers in the UK yellow during WWI; they were nicknamed the Canary Girls
OowKY TIL Animated series Captain Pugwash was believed to have featured characters with risqué names such as Master Bates, Seaman Staines and Roger the Cabin Boy. They were actually Master Mate, Tom the Cabin Boy, and Pirates Barnabas and Willy. Two British newspapers were successfully sued for the error.
jN8eQ TIL that 3 teenagers from a small island in the pacific went missing at sea for 50 days after a drunken midnight trip to an island 200km away in pursuit of a girl
w1d7 TIL that January was named after Janus, the Roman God with two faces - one that looks back to the past and the other that looks forward to the future.
1adRP TIL the most decorated infantry unit in US history was made up of Japanese-Americans during WWII despite being untrusted and their communities forced into camps.