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

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0wKPj TIL that Yuri Kondratyuk, Soviet pioneer of astronautics, while working in Siberia, built an enormous wooden grain elevator with a capacity of 13 000 tons without using any nails. Due to using such an unusual construction, he was arrested in suspicion of sabotage. The elevator stood till the 90s.
em54 TIL that lemurs have “Stink Fights” where they rub their tail in their scent glands and try to make their opponent smell like them.
J1Oxv TIL that while studying for his American naturalization test, mathematician Kurt Gödel discovered a contradiction in the U.S. Constitution that could theoretically lead from a democracy to a dictatorship via a loophole in how amendment's are made.
OGLEX TIL that during Deng Xiaoping's visit to the United States, a Maoist American protested against him, calling him a "capitalist roader"
9w7yr TIL that the most viscous liquid on earth is Pitch (or bitumen) and it took 69 years for one drop to fall