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TIL HAL Laboratory named that way because each letter put them one step ahead of IBM

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4XwXb TIL: The Golden Gate Bridge's famed color, "International Orange" selected by architect Irving Morrow for aesthetics and for visibility in fog, won out over the US Navy's preferred color scheme. The Navy wanted it black with yellow safety stripes --the better for ships to see it.
0GY1 TIL burning man is destroying the only suitable land speed record track in the US and is causing significant environmental damage to the fragile desert
V0gQ TIL that in May of 2012, Florida Judge James Daniel denied Marissa Alexander protection under Stand Your Ground Laws and sentenced her to 20-years in prison for firing warning shots at her allegedly abusive husband, against whom she had already taken out a protective order.
KOxDw TIL that in 1196 AD, Al-Aziz Uthman, Saladin's son and the Sultan of Egypt, attempted to demolish the pyramids, starting with that of Menkaure. Workmen recruited to demolish the pyramid stayed at their job for eight months, but found it almost as expensive to destroy as to build. They mostly failed.
61x7 TIL Former NFL star Jason Brown walked away from $37 million to feed the hungry with his farm. He has now given away over 50,000 pounds of food.