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TIL different colors of wax used for sealing letters represent the contents of the letter.

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4XReg TIL that the last survivor of the Crimean War, which ended in 1856, died in 2004 at the age of 160. She was a female tortoise named Timothy who was a mascot for several British naval vessels during the war.
DYZP TIL JetBlue has an E190 plane named “My other ride is a jetBlue A320” and an A320 plane named “My Other Ride Is A JetBlue E190.”
RE0a TIL Christopher Walken doesn’t have a computer or a cell phone, and doesn’t drive in traffic because it makes him nervous.
AW9g TIL that french poet and novelist Victor Hugo lived his last days in Paris on the “avenue Victor Hugo”, having as his address “Mr Victor Hugo, In his avenue, in Paris”.
R5bYw TIL about the CTXφ bacteriophage: a virus that lives inside the Cholera Bacteria and carries the gene that causes symptoms in cholera infection. The unusual relationship is akin to a "symbiotic parasite"