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TIL Orange and Brown are essentially the same color, only differing in brightness.

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loB15 TIL that Guillermo Del Toro's father was kidnapped in Mexico and the kidnappers wanted $1 million for his release. James Cameron became aware of this and paid the ransom, even recommending a negotiator.
9YKop TIL Folding@Home is a distributed computing project for biomedical research of protein folding. Started in 2000, it now has over 100,000 users and is the fastest supercomputer in the world with over 470 petaFLOPS of computational power. The research has produced over 223 peer reviewed articles.
Djgr TIL that Guardian of the Galaxy Groot was one of Stan Lee’s first creations at Marvel (and originally a villain)predating Spider-Man and most of the Avengers, including the Hulk, Iron Man, and Thor
kOnEW TIL the Associated Press published Nazi propaganda photos, changing their credits to conceal their origins. More recently, the AP had an exclusive deal with North Korea and published propaganda photos approved by that nation's dictatorship.
p81dG TIL one can apparently buy gold pills that will turn your poop gold