Puerto Rico’s Mosquito Bay glows so bright you can read by it. The Guinness World Record holder for bioluminescence. ✨

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#TodayILearned in 1971 the FBI asked the US Air Force to assist them in searching for D. B. Cooper. They had a SR-71 Blackbird with its high-powered cameras retrace the hijacked airliner's route to photograph it. Five flights were made but no usable photographs were taken.

#TodayILearned that the word ‘eleven’ comes “from an Old English word meaning “one left over.””

Making English Gooder - A.J. Jacobs

Antarctica’s Blood Falls isn’t a wound—it’s a five-story rust cascade that hides a secret world.

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#TodayILearned The wreckage of a SR-71 Blackbird is buried in the Mariana Trench. It crashed in 1989, flying out of Okinawa. After recovery it was decided to not bury it on land to protect its classified materials.

This sand dune in the UAE sounds exactly like a low-flying propeller plane. 🔊🌵

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A cave ceiling in New Zealand glows like a living galaxy, thanks to thousands of bioluminescent larvae. Nature is wild.

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When using Central Package Management in #dotnet then make sure to name that file `Directory.Packages.props` with a capital D and P, otherwise when building on a case sensitive filesystem (think Linux) you get weird NuGet errors.

A glacier cave glows sapphire blue from inside the ice—no lights, just frozen water filtering sunlight.

#GlacierCave #SapphireBlue #MendenhallGlacier #NaturalPhenomenon #IceCave #facts #didyouknow #interestingfacts #todayilearned #curiosity

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#TodayILearned that @en.afp.com is not the same as AFD, like AT ALL. 🤦🏽‍♀️😆 So now it’ll remind me of the West Wing instead, since my introduction to Agence France was when CJ called them and several other journos to her office to break a Really Big Story to them.

#TodayILearned there are trans women who are loudly and unironically white supremacist.
Holy mother of contradictory principles batman.
What a horrible day to be literate

It stops its heart for months and comes back to life. Nature’s ultimate deep freeze. 🐸❄️

#WoodFrog #FrozenAlive #NatureIsMetal #AnimalFacts #DidYouKnow #facts #didyouknow #interestingfacts #todayilearned #curiosity

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#TodayILearned that the Pacific island nation formerly known as #Nauru changed their name last month to #Naoero, moving away from a whitewashed/foreigner-friendly spelling back to the correct spelling.

Other recent-ish changes: Swaziland --> Eswatini (eSwatini?), and Turkey --> Türkiye.

This bug has real mechanical gears on its legs — nature's only known gear system.

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#todayilearned jurassic park lied to me & velociraptors had feathers??

The narwhal’s tusk isn’t a horn—it’s a 10-foot tooth with millions of nerve endings. A living sensor in the Arctic.

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