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TIL that since there is no red light 30 ft under the water, blood looks green. If you go even deeper, blood color may change from green to black.

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OZb7 TIL that ESPN currently pays the NFL about $105 million dollars for the rights to air each Monday Night game. That means airing one game costs more than the budget of Minority Report ($102 million) or a whole slew of other blockbusters.
xxwk TIL of Jack Whittaker, who won the largest jackpot in history and donated much of his winnings, before a string of horrible luck. He was robbed, lost his wife to divorce and his granddaughter and daughter to suicide. He later said that winning the lottery was the worst thing to ever happen to him.
XEQmP TIL that Estonian, despite being an finno-urgric language that’s closely related to Finnish, borrowed about 1/3 of it vocabulary from Germanic language (german and low Saxon)
Br86y TIL about Gustave the Crocodile. Estimated to be over eighteen feet long, and weighing more than a ton, Gustave allegedly killed over 300 people. It has bullet scars from failed attempts on its life. It's so large that it's forced to attack larger prey. It's still on the loose, and is still growing.
Brxyd TIL about the Lost Colony of Roanoke, the first attempt at British settlement of North America. The leader of the colony left for England for supplies and returned to find all 120 colonists and their buildings had vanished. The only clue was the word ‘CROATOAN’ carved into a tree.