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TIL Disney/Disneyland formulated 2 specific colors (Go Away Green and Blending Blue) to help “erase” backstage buildings and camouflage parts of the park that are under construction.

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epdxD TIL The Harlem Globetrotters once lost track of a game and found themselves down 12 with 2 minutes left. Forced to play normal basketball, they rallied but could not recover. When the final buzzer sounded, the crowd was dumbfounded and disappointed. Some children in the stands cried after the loss.
XRJD TIL H. G. Wells created a tabletop-esque war game, in 1913, called “Little Wars; a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys’ games and books.” which can be read and downloaded via Project Gutenberg.
OoMwL TIL : When Queen Elizabeth visited the set of "Game of Thrones" she refused to sit on the Iron Throne because there is a law disallowing her from sitting on a foreign throne.
5w89 TIL: In 2006 Ireland blocked the US from transporting arms to Israel through Shannon Airport, “segments of the Irish public see the airport as a symbol of Irish complicity in perceived US wrongdoing in the Middle East.”
lobv5 TIL that Despite its name, no part of Equatorial Guinea's territory lies on the equator— it is in the northern hemisphere, except for the insular Annobón Province, which is about 155 km (96 mi) south of the equator.