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TIL: Leonardo DaVinci was the first person to explain why the sky is blue

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WvJ8 TIL that Benjamin Franklin designed one of the first American coins, and instead of saying “In God We Trust,” it said “Mind Your Business.”
ee1b TIL Walmart has a strict no-touching policy and an employee was once fired for being pushed and grabbing for help
OovyY TIL that traveling at the speed of light, it would take you 200,000 years to go across the Milky Way galaxy
KYLg9 TIL that Cecil H. Underwood, the 25th and 32nd Governor of West Virginia, was both the youngest and oldest Governor of West Virginia, having served his first term from 1957-1961, and the second from 1997-2001.
4kVx6 TIL about Charles Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk. He was responsible for rescuing a team of French nuclear scientists and the entire world stockpile of heavy water from France during WW2. He also served as part of an unexploded bomb detachment, successfully tackling 34 unexploded bombs