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TIL that the sun actually puts off white light and it only looks yellow to us because of our atmosphere scattering blue light away (which is why the sky looks blue)

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apkL TIL that Olivia Wilde’’s actual name is Olivia Cockburn. She changed her name professionally to make it sound pleasant, and chose ‘Wilde’ as a tribute to Oscar Wilde.
XZ8E TIL Terry Jones of Monty Python purchased the “Flying Circus” tapes mere weeks before the BBC was scheduled to wipe them in the 1970’s along with countless other TV shows now lost.
DD9D TIL that solitary confinement can cause neurological damage that is so profound it can be seen on EEG-scans and “the brain may become as impaired as one that has incurred a traumatic injury”
QJGYe TIL Beauty and the Beast was written in 1740 as a critique of the forced marriages between 13-15 yr old girls to adult men common at the time. Later versions shifted the emphasis to teach young girls "good manners and how to deal with the idea of marrying young and being in an arranged marriage."
GaeJ TIL: South Africa has no legally defined capital city. Power is shared between Cape Town (Parliament), Bloemfontein (Administrative), Pretoria (President & Cabinet) and Johannesburg (Constitutional Court).