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TIL the line on the side of ships called the plimsoll line is named after the MP Samuel Plimsoll

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gMVrA TIL of the Swiss Spaghetti Harvest, an April Fool's Day prank pulled by the BBC in 1957. Their highly respected news anchor reported a good harvest due to the disappearance of the 'Spaghetti Weevil', accompanied by footage of people removing spaghetti from trees. This sparked many complaints.
YpGkv TIL A map needs only four colors to ensure that regions with common borders do not have the same color.
Vedm TIL about Sarajevo Roses; after the siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war (1992-1995), the craters left by exploding artillery rounds were filled with red resin as a memorial to the 11,000 people who died.
0wE61 TIL that the Texas School Book Depository building, from where Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President of the United States John F. Kennedy, was slated for demolition prior to the assassination, but was then preserved to investigate the murder, and is now a museum and National Historic Landmark
Y789B TIL North American colonial powers paid bounties to people who turned in scalps of killed Native Americans. Colonists’ use of scalping against Native American people likely accelerated the practice.