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TIL that the beautiful "watermelon snow" is a phenomenon caused by algae which enjoy living in freezing cold water.

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e0M4k TIL there's a village in England called Fingringhoe.
nEbb TIL that, statistically, women not taking birth control “kill” more fertilized zygotes than women taking birth control.
M8A7 TIL of the Fighting Hypothesis, which argues that left-handedness was not bred out of the gene pool because it provided an advantage in the combat.
nerQb TIL after being shot and stabbed multiple times during his assassination, Alexei Nikolaevich, the heir to the Russian Empire throne, survived until the assassins found precious gems in between his shirt and tunic protecting him.
9YDVG TIL that despite being aligned with Nazi Germany in WWII, Finnish Jews were not persecuted by the government of Finland. The Finnish Army set up the only field synagogue on the Eastern Front and Finnish Jews fought with Germans in support of the Axis Powers.