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TIL since 2020, white LED streetlights have been turning purple because of a defect during the manufacturing process between 2017 and 2019. The yellow phosphor coating was delaminating, and the blue LED began showing through, giving off a purplish glow.
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TIL there is a statue of George Washington in Lima, Peru, that was purchased by the Peruvian government and dedicated on July 4, 1921, to pay homage to Washington, whom Peruvian President Augusto B. Leguía called the “Great Liberator of the North.”
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TIL since 1998, officials at the Library of Congress have been looking for the exact books Thomas Jefferson sold to the library which were later lost in a fire in 1851. They’ve located over 4,000 exact replacements with the same publisher, date, and edition as Jefferson's 4,324 original volumes.