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TIL the color of facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind

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O1xe TIL Ancient Babylonians had a sophisticated understanding of astronomy and were even able to track planets such as Jupiter with mathematical precision.
wLbmP TIL in an early draft of Lord of the Rings, Frodo was named Bingo Bolger-Baggins
POEG TIL In the 1940’s, russian experimenters were able to resurrect dogs from death AND brought a decapitated dog’s head to conciousness
4XXlR TIL on January 12, 2017, the Federal Government officially changed the nickname of people from the state of Indiana from "Indianans" to "Hoosiers", making Indiana the first state not to have a version of their state name in their nickname ("Illinoisans", "Texans", etc.)
gA44 TIL the original pledge of allegiance was completely secular. It was only in 1954, 12 years after its formal adoption, that a group of right-wing religious elements pushed for the phrase “under God” to be added, claiming it was “definitive factor in the American way of life.”