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TIL that to tell how old sharks are, they count the rings in the vertebrae

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VyD4 TIL When guitarist Slash wrote “Sweet Child O’ Mine” he had an initial disdain for the song due to its roots as a simple “string skipping” exercise and considered it a joke at the time.
XQV8 TIL the Q in Q-tips stands for “quality”, and that they were originally called “baby gays”
JYn4v TIL That on September 11th, 1973, Salvador Allende, the first Marxist to be democratically elected to President of Chile, was overthown in a CIA-backed military coup; a 17 year-long US-backed military junta led by Augusto Pinochet followed, in which thousands of dissidents were persecuted.
YpX0G TIL Uranus and Neptune are not "Gas Giants" as is commonly believed, but belong to a separate category of giant planets called "Ice Giants." This is because less than 20% of their mass is made up of hydrogen and helium. True gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are over 90% hydrogen and helium.
e044g TIL that police in Georgia, "drug recognition experts," can arrest someone for driving under the influence of marijuana just by claiming the driver seemed to be impaired — even when tests show otherwise