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TIL: UNTIL 2013, THE US NAVY SENT MESSAGES IN ALL CAPS

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Wkyno TIL: A single serving of cooking spray is considered to be so small that it can be called “fat free”. That implies that an entire can filled with nothing but oil has no calories.
Eg0AP TIL that GameMill Publishing (Skull island: Rise of Kong) Also published Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.
kOoZ1 Octopuses are weird. This is not just because they look odd. It’s not because they’re disturbingly smart. It’s because they have a strange power. In April last year, researchers found octopuses — and some of their cuttlefish and squid cousins — regularly edit their RNA. This sets them apart from the rest of the animal world.
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