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TIL The first color broadcast was in 1958 when a TV presenter pushed a button to change black and white into color for President Eisenhower’s speech

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xVaDB TIL the makers of the "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" movies bought a horse just to make a joke. They named the horse All Pink and instructed the jockey not to win but to stay on the inside rail the whole race just to hear the play-by-play announcer say "It's All Pink on the inside!"
YQNZ TIL that, including the Chernobyl disaster, Nuclear Power is responsible for 0.09 deaths per Terra-watt hour of electricity produced. Coal is responsible for 170 deaths/TWh
69mw7 TIL that most PC and laptop keyboards have tactile markers on F and J keys to help locate them
9Y1OM TIL Melissa Joan Hart was 20 when she started Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
98xQ TIL that newly built British homes are the smallest in Europe and less than half the size of American homes.