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TIL the red juices from steak isn’t blood, it’s myoglobin

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GYQRN TIL that 21 years ago, nearly five million LEGO pieces fell into the sea when a huge wave hit the cargo ship Tokio Express, washing 62 containers overboard. One contained over 4.7 million pieces of Lego, much of it sea themed. The Lego is still washing up.
vPgbD TIL of Stigler's law of eponymy: "no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer". Stigler himself attributed the law's discovery to sociologist Robert K. Merton, ensuring that the law itself would be an example of itself.
m1Zdx TIL of a Kugelblitz a theoretical astrophysical object predicted by general relativity. It is a concentration of heat, light or radiation so intense that its energy forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped. The concentration of energy can warp spacetime so much that it creates a black hole
yG1l TIL that in 2012 a South Pacific island, recorded by Google Earth and Australian maps, was discovered to not actually exist
jkdn TIL Blind people don’t see black, they literally see nothing