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TIL The juice of red cabbage can be used as a homemade pH indicator

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56AD TIL of Dunbarton Castle, the most ancient continuously fortified place in the British Isles, where people lived since at least the Iron Age and throughout history has been; besieged by vikings, used as a jail, a military base, housing for royalty, and is built on a volcanic plug.
pLwe TIL Phil Collins wrote the captain planet theme song.
OGa7a TIL I learned that the fledgling Casablanca Records was saved from extinction by singing Donna Summer after the label went $7 million in debt on a live album of Johnny Carson which returned more copies than sold.
yQRD8 TIL Maplewashing is a phenomenon that refers to the alleged tendency of Canadian governments, institutions, and media to perpetuate the notion that Canada is morally superior to other countries, thus sanitizing and concealing negative historical and contemporary actions.
Aldo TIL the state of Missouri has a program called Puppies for Parole were the offenders at the prisons train dogs to be adopted. The program is in 19 of 20 institutions and the Queen of England is interested in starting a program like Missouri’s.