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TIL that the official name for the colour of the universe is “cosmic latté” & it is a beige colour. other suggestions were skyvory, big bang beige & primordial clam chowder.

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nnBW TIL that the SR-71 Blackbird was never hit by the over 4,000 missiles fired at it during its 25-year service. The SOP was to accelerate to faster than the missile could catch up with it.
OGeoR TIL: Illustrator W.W. Denslow was best known as the illustrator of the original L. Frank Baum Wizard of Oz books. But Denslow also created the comic strip Billy Bounce: One of the first to feature a hero with super powers. Denslow made so much money he bought an island and crowned himself king.
X0jek TIL you can't legally buy Jack Daniel's whiskey in the town where the Jack Daniel's distillery is located, since it's a "dry county". It's legal to distill alcohol, just not legal to sell.
erv6 TIL that in the Siberian wilderness lives a woman named Agafia Laikov, a 70 old woman who is the last survivor of a ultra orthodox sect that fled Stalins prosecution and had no contact with outsiders for 40 years, not hearing about world war2 until the 1980’s
VBnm4 TIL that half of the top ten most violent cities, in all of America, are in fact small towns.