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TIL in 2008 a California nuclear plant was taken offline due to “a rapid influx of jellyfish”

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Nv8J TIL the 3 timelines shown in The Grand Budapest Hotel were each shot in a different aspect ratio, to reflect the cinematic history of the period being depicted.
loBb5 TIL about Mrs. Chippy, a cat that went on the Shackleton expedition to Antarctica. Shackleton ordered Mrs. Chippy shot when the expedition had to abandon its ship. His owner, McNish, died in poverty and obscurity, some of his last words being, "Shackleton killed my cat."
YpEmv TIL that the most expensive liquid is horse semen worth up to $4.7 million per gallon
69gxY TIL "The Rabbit Died" was once a common euphemism for a positive pregnancy test, when actually all rabbits died using such tests which involved injecting them with women's urine.
kJrVe TIL there is a depleted gold mine in Yellowknife, Canada that is sitting on 237,000 tonnes of Arsenic. The mining company had exhausted the area of gold and handed it back to the federal government, which is now freezing the Arsenic to keep it contained.