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TIL Vatican City leads the world in per-capita wine consumption due to its sacramental use

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v1bJK TIL Snow isn’t actually white, but rather translucent. It’s the light reflecting off it that makes it appear white with the many sides of the snowflake scattering light in many directions, diffusing the entire colour spectrum. Snow can also appear in a wide variety of spectacular hues.
Oo49L TIL Uber is launching Uber Air, an aerial ridesharing service, by the year 2023. The first cities to offer Uber Air will be Melbourne, Dallas & Los Angeles.
b6rla TIL that during the American War of Independence, the Americans who remained loyal to the British Government were also called "Tories," the same label that British Conservatives are named as today.
9Y8DB TIL researchers at U of Tokyo have created a robot hand that has a 100% winning rate playing rock-paper-scissors. It does so by "cheating", using a high-speed camera to recognize the shape within 1 millisecond.
0dgYv TIL that 5-time F1 world champion Juan Manuel Fangio couldn't race in the 1958 Cuban Grand Prix, because he was kidnapped by Fidel Castro's henchmen to attract worldwide publicity to their cause. He was treated well and handed over to the Argentine embassy soon after the race