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7rMmp TIL the colored beads in Silica Gel packets are a humidity indicator. If the beads are blue or orange the silica gel can still adsorb more moisture. If the beads are pink or green, then the silica gel is spent and can adsorb no more moisture.
egab TIL that after Boromir had a dream urging him to seek Rivendell to the north, it took him a hundred and ten days to arrive, just barely making it in time for Elrond’s council. Tolkien wrote that the “courage and hardihood required was not fully recognized by the narrative”.
Ypr0v TIL that the February and October Revolutions of 1917 actually occurred in March and November, respectively. This is because Tsarist Russia used the Julian calendar at the time, which the Bolsheviks changed to the Gregorian calendar after the revolution.
E16d TIL The second largest shareholder in News Corp is a Saudi Oil Billionaire..
neJOo TIL of the Great Green Wall of Africa (or the Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel) being planted to combat the expansion of the Sahara Desert. Originally proposed in 1954 it is approximately 15% completed and will span 8,000 km across all of the African continent.