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TIL: The consensus is that octopuses are most likely sentient.

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Ogg1 TIL that the colour orange was named after the fruit and not the other way around. Until that time the colour was referred to as yellow-red and may be why red hair got its misnomer.
eB1E TIL the inventor of cell phone batteries, LCD-screens and rewritable CDs, Stanford R. Ovshinsky, was self taught and without formal college training.
6ExO7 TIL in 1995, a Russian Ilyushin Il-76 was intercepted and captured by the Taliban. After negotiations for a prisoner exchange fell through, the Russian crew physically overpowered and disarmed their guards and started their plane, narrowly dodging a firetruck as they took off towards freedom.
yVbEl TIL that the "Beatles" name was inspired by Buddy Holly and the Crickets, who was a big early influence on the band
8aPxa TIL of Andre Geim, the only person to win both a Nobel Prize for graphene, and an Ig Nobel Prize for levitating a frog.