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TIL: that when Crayola decided to retire the colors raw umber and maize, a group called the Raw Umber and Maize Preservation Society or “RUMPS” formed and showed up to Crayola headquarters to protest with signs…

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5YBPp TIL that Deborah Sampson joined the US Army in 1782 serving as an Infantryman and being injured during her service.
e0Yob TIL that support ships called 'Destroyer tenders' were common in navies in the first half of the 20th century; one Destroyer tender would travel with multiple destroyer ships, carrying supplies for them, thus extending their collective range on the open ocean
epwdJ TIL: Some car commercials are done with CGI. This is done because these commercials are often shot before the cars have actually been manufactured. Also it’s much harder to move these cars to the shooting locations. They use a car called the Mill Blackbird for the CGI.
gLjb TIL A man accused of swinging a toy light saber at customers in a toy store used the light saber to break one of the wires on a Taser when police officers responded to the call.
oRlbL TIL about the Union of the Comoros; an archipelagic country off the southeast coast of Africa with an estimated population of 1 million people.