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TIL that the skin colour of apples darkens with exposure to UV

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8ebyG TIL a music producer in Japan put two different endings for the physical CDs of an album themed around quantum physics. This way, people would "observe" one of the two outcomes of the album, as in quantum mechanics.
nebwd TIL In 1903, H. Nelson Jackson, Sewall Crocker, and their dog Bud made the first successful transcontinental automobile trip. The journey was arduous and slow, but their trip made headlines wherever they went, proving that long-distance road travel was a real—if expensive and difficult—possibility.
a1YJ TIL That a war dog during WWI was promoted to sergeant through combat, participated in 17 battles in the Western Front, saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attacks, and once caught a German soldier by the seat of his pants, holding him there until American soldiers found him.
r6Le TIL the largest naturally occurring iron mass on the Earth’s surface was discovered in 1920 on a small farm in rural Namibia. Unusual for its size (over 60 tonnes) it was found to be extraterrestrial in origin, proving to be the largest iron meteorites to ever reach the Earth’s surface intact
9xnM TIL Human “night owls” may be more successful in the work place, better at lateral thinking