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TIL NASA has their own SWAT Team

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4XAk5 TIL that Disneyland has its own color called "Go Away Green"—a shade that's meant to help things blend in with the landscaping. Go Away Green is a gray-green (and kinda bluish) shade, tested and formulated to blend in well among almost anything: concrete, landscaping, the sky, you name it.
dDAg8 TIL of Radhanath Sickdhar, an Indian hired as a "computer" and who in 1852 determined through math that Mt. Everest was the tallest mountain in the world
jNl8X TIL The original drummer of The Offspring became a gynecologist, and during the initial stages of a malpractice trial, he performed CPR and used a defibrillator to save the life of a potential juror. The judge had to declare a mistrial because the rest of the jury would likely be biased in his favor
rPJw TIL: a 14 year old boy needed 13L of blood during emergency surgery decided that when he was 18 he was going to start giving blood. Doctors discovered a rare antibody in his blood. He has saved over 2.4 million unborn babies over 5 decades.
WbGY TIL Congress wrote the Freedom of Information Act so that they are exempt from it (among a list of many other laws)