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TIL The Leader Of The Nazi’s SA Was Openly Gay

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RrZj TIL that gold gets its color from special relativity. Relativistic contraction shrinks the gap between the s and d orbitals, allowing gold to absorb blue instead of ultraviolet. If not for relativity, gold would appear more silver in color.
GYkE7 TIL doctors from UCLA found unique blood cells that can help fight infections in a man from Seattle's spleen, so they stole the cells from his body and developed it into medicine without paying him, getting his consent, or even letting him know they were doing it.
9YYoX Moonlight triggers the world’s biggest orgy, strange creatures emerge from the depths, and waves glow blue. Some phenomena in the ocean can only be witnessed after dark.
5lB8 til in 2005, Denver took people’s dogs and euthanized them if them they resembled a pit bull
x6g5w TIL: manta rays pass the mirror self-recognition test.