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TIL That in 2011, a man killed his wife in a Walmart she worked at. Instead of closing the store, Walmart just roped off the part of the store covered in blood.

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OoGOX The sky appears blue for a combination of two reasons. Before white light reaches the Earth's surface, the light waves collide with and bounce off of the nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the atmosphere. Different frequencies of light (in other words different colours) are scattered differently. Higher frequencies (blue and purple) are more easily scattered and thus bounce around in all different directions more than lower frequencies (red or orange) do. The scattering of high frequencies alone would cause the sky to appear blue and purple, but our eyes work better at frequencies near the middle of the spectrum (yellow and green). Since the colour blue is closer to yellow or green than purple is, the sky we see appears blue.
QDZa TiL Microsoft had originally approached Encyclopædia Britannica, but it declined, believing its print media sales would be hurt; however, the Benton Foundation was forced to sell Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. at below book value in 1996 when the print sales could no longer compete with Encarta .
dQk8 TIL Tim Horton died at the age of 44 while attempting to drive from Toronto to Buffalo at 4AM with twice the legal Blood Alcohol Level, multiple drugs in his system, no seat-belt, and the police chasing him.
XLMr TIL Billie Piper, in her split from DJ Chris Evans, was entitled to 30 million GBP ($50 million US) but refused to take it stating, “I think that’s disgusting.” In reference to the idea she should take the money.
b9oyZ TIL that the cost of developing the B-29 Superfortress exceeded that of the Manhattan Project by ~1 billion (about 50% more)