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TIL that some orcas prey on dolphins

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RPpQ TIL Thomas Jefferson is credited by the OED as the first person in history to use the word “Shag”, to mean “to have sex with”
BJkL TIL the method of dying the Chicago river green for St. Patrick’s Day was discovered by accident. The fluorescein dye was first used to detect pollution in the water. Since the Chicago river is so polluted, the entire river turned bright green.
eE46 TIL that the Hubble Space Telescope has collected more than 100 TB of data and generates 844 GB per month.
0jxN TIL that we don’t see pure black when we close our eyes, we see a color named Eigengrau and although there are a few theories as to what causes it nobody’s quite sure.
9wvmp TIL the Nuclear Gandhi bug from Civilization actually never existed