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TIL Blue whales are colourblind and don't know they themselves are blue.

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W75dY TIL in 1913 Trotsky, Tito, Freud, Stalin, and hitler all lived in Vienna
DQXYV TIL of Bird Island, a man-made platform off the coast of Namibia that serves as an avian breeding ground for the globally-isolated Cape Cormorant; as well as a renewable source of Guano (bird shit), which is used in fertilizer for it’s high nitrogen content.
KOlkG TIL the British Rock band Radiohead released their album "In Rainbows" under a pay what you want pricing strategy where customers could even download all their songs for free. In spite of the free option, many customers paid and they netted more profits because of this marketing strategy
YOLv TIL there was a koi fish named Hanako that lived for 226 years
1dV TIL that Louis Armstrong suffered from severe calluses on his lips due to his excessive trumpet-playing. So, he cut them off with a razor blade.