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TIL that “Facebook is blue because Zuckerberg is color-blind”

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ebNk TIL actor Clint Walker was pierced through the heart with a ski pole. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, but a doctor detected faint signs of life and rushed Walker to surgery, where his damaged heart was repaired. Within two months Walker was again working
EgG77 TIL although it is known that George Washington bought teeth from enslaved people, there is evidence that the intended recipient was a dentist named Jean Pierre Le Mayeur who was performing tooth transplants in the area at the time
v1paK TIL that a company in China has been building a true-to-scale replica of the Titanic for use as a tourist attraction. The interesting part is that the finished attraction will include a "hit the iceberg experience"...an audio/visual simulation of the Titanic's iceberg collision.
6PWZ TIL that there is an entire episode of “Full House” devoted to making fun of people who make duck faces.
b9x7 TIL in 2005 Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch purchased a 400,000-acre (1,600 km2) area of land in the heart of the Amazon rainforest from a logging company for the sole purpose of it’s preservation.