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TIL about the National Eagle Repository - a US government site that distributes eagle feathers and other parts to Native Americans for ceremonies.

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5VMEQ TIL about sodium dodecyl sulfate, a detergent developed in the late 60's and which revolutionized protein analysis, as it unfolds proteins and gives them the same shape and electric charge density. This later led to the development of a technique called SDS-PAGE, which separates proteins by mass.
GG8N TIL It has been well argued that the sky is red and orange in Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream, because the eruption of the volcano Krakatoa in 1883, was so massive, that it disrupted the earth’s atmosphere. This caused the sky to turn blood red at sunset.
D14yY TIL Digital VHS tapes from 1998 could store 50GB of 1080i on a normal sized tape - the only way to get HD commercial films until Blu-ray in 2004.
9w0B TIL the captain of the Titanic originally failed his navigation test.
wLxxY TIL Theodore Roosevelt was the first American to earn a brown belt in judo.