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TIL Out of 3000 salmon eggs, only 5 or 6 will reach adulthood

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4XWJ6 TIL that Marie Curie named Polonium after her native Poland
gMgAX Police across the US are training crime-predicting AIs on falsified data
7rg8O TIL that the word "Nazi" is actually German slang for "backwards peasant", a term that existed before the Nazi party. We used it as an insulting abbreviation the their actual name, Nationalsozialistische. Hitler hated being called a Nazi. Also, the origins of a bunch of other terms.
lomea TIL that Key West was called Cayo Hueso (Bone Cay) by the Spanish because of all the human skeletons littering the isle
G7ej TIL a word that can be its own antonym is called a contronym. For example, “bitch” can refer to someone who’s domineering or submissive.