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TIL that Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind.

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Brw9d TIL that high-school kids in the very north of Minnesota have to cross the Canada–United States border to go to school
9XwG TIL According to legend, in 1845, Ottoman Sultan declared his intention to send £10,000 to victims of the Irish potato famine, but was instructed to send only £1,000, so as not to donate more than Queen Victoria, who had sent £2,000. He sent £1,000 along with three or five ships full of food.
DQmpg TIL that as a child star, Jackie Coogan earned up to $4m (equivalent to around $91m today) but by age 21, he found most of it had been spent by his mother and stepfather. He sued in 1938 and received only $126,000. This case resulted in the 1939 enactment of the California Child Actor's Bill.
JGV1 Til that the east and west US use different sized sticks of butter
9Mop TIL 90% of the top occupations in the U.S. pay only between 18k-34k on average