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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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rjAx TIL of Paraprosdokian, a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that forces the reader or listener to reinterpret the first part. An example being, “On the other hand, you have different fingers”
NWZ8 TIL Queen Elizabeth (an experienced Army driver during WWII) once took King Abdullah for a drive in her Land Rover. As she accelerated through narrow Scottish roads while talking the King was so nervous that he implored the Queen to slow down and concentrate on the road ahead.
N7W68 TIL that even though Canada did not participate in the Vietnam war, some Canadians volunteered to fight alongside the US. 134 of them lost their lives in the war.
oWJW TIL reddit’s post ranking algorithm makes it nearly impossible for a post to stay on the front page if it’s more than 18 hours old
M7jDA TIL in 1937 the soviets discovered that Samuel Dickstein, a prominent NY congressman, was running a criminal business of selling illegal US passports. He got on the soviet payroll for $1,250 a month($27k today) with the codename "crook", refering to his greediness. Nobody found out until the 90's