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TIL that every element burns with a different color flame. Spectroscopy, study of these colors, has shown that the same elements exist all over the Universe.

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nJ4G TIL that there were only two black combat pilots in the First World War. Eugene Bullard was an African-American who served with the French Air Force and Ahmet Ali Çelikten, an Arab-African who flew with the Ottoman Air Force… placing them both on opposite sides of the conflict.
aw0QN TIL that because because Vatican City is only 0.44 square kilometers, and is home to one pope, they have a Pope density of 2.27 Popes per square kilometer.
GAL9j TIL in 2014, a woman was held in jail for one month after police mistook sauce from a can of SpaghettiOs on a spoon in her purse for meth. The arresting officer said he “found it strange” that Huff would eat SpaghettiOs and put the spoon in her purse
l75yr TIL Heineken spent $45 million on a 5 second placement of James Bond drinking a bottle on the beach. This paid for half of Skyfall's entire movie budget.
b9AWZ TIL because the trees require year round watering, California's almond farmers are responsible for 10% of the states annual water demand: ten million acre-feet, or 3.25 trillion gallons.