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TIL Fresh Water and Salt Water Drown You Differently

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wok5M TIL Even though Lions live in the Savannah the reason they are called king of the Jungle is because the word Jungle comes from a Sanskrit word meaning uninhabited place. Not necessarily a forest
wLOvo TIL Wi-Fi can be used to see through walls.
b6ZyZ TIL about alexithymia, a somewhat common but unstudied condition in which a person is unable to interpret their own emotions despite being able to function normally in every other way
BrrNx TIL that Thad Roberts, an intern at NASA, stole roughly $21 million worth of moon rocks from NASA with the aid of his girlfriend. He loaded a 600 pound safe containing ~101 grams of samples and wheeled it out of the complex, destroying 30 years of the chief scientist’s research in the process.
jNPv TIL that the middle finger of Galileo Galilei is on display at the Museo Galileo in Florence.