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TIL that most people like the color orange less and less as they grow older

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d8VZ8 TIL that the reason many evangelicals support Israel is because they believe that the Jewish people must control the country to fulfill the Armageddon prophecy and begin the end of times
6Pe8 TIL major cities like New York, Paris, and Toronto create and maintain fake building fronts in urban centres to conceal vent shafts and utilities. The ‘property’ in Brooklyn concealing a 19th century vent shaft is worth over 2 million!
yQNea TIL some Japanese noblewomen of the Edo period had servants who were employed to take the blame for their farts if they passed gas in front of others. This was done by the servant 'confessing'/verbally proclaiming it was her in the moment.
R5wD8 TIL Candy corn was called "Chicken feed" when it was first produced in the late 1880s. The Goelitz Confectionery Company, who bought the manufacturing rights in 1898, alluded to the old name with the advertising slogan "Something worth crowning for".
N7LX1 TIL the US Military did not help Marvel with The Avengers (2012) because they could not understand the role of SHIELD in the chain of command