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TIL Caitlyn Jenner was a race car driver.
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TIL why the sky is blue. White light (which is made up of all the colors) comes from the sun, and hits our atmosphere, which breaks it apart. Blue light has a higher frequency than most other colors, so it scatters much faster, filling our skies.
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TIL a boucanier was a French hunter in the Caribbean who smoked meat on a wooden frame called a boucane. Boucaniers sold their meat to the corsairs operating around the Caribbean. Eventually the corsairs themselves were referred to as boucaniers, later anglicized as "buccaneers".
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TIL The Wiggles, at the peak of their popularity in the late 90s, travelled in two planes so that in the unfortunate event of a crash, half of the group would survive to continue touring.
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TIL Rudy Eugene, the “Bath Salts Zombie” that bit off a man’s face in 2012 while supposedly high on Bath Salts, had no sign of the drug in his system (or any drug other than marijuana) when the attack occurred.
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TIL Stalin’s daughter hated communism, fled the USSR, and moved to America in 1967. Despite assassination threats from the Soviets, she denounced her father as a “moral and spiritual monster.”