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TIL that magenta is a color that doesn’t actually exist in nature.

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dD5LQ TIL: The US developed the chemical compound Cyanogen Chloride for use in WW2 against Japan. It is a highly toxic blood agent that could penetrate gas masks. Truman decided against using it and opted for the atom bomb. It is now listed in the Chemical Weapons Convention and has never been deployed.
1WPD TIL Stephen Hawking does the voice acting for his own appearances in Futurama (he also does this for The Simpsons too, but not Family Guy)
6xpQ TIL that in ‘King of the Hill’, Octavio, a “badass gangster” character who is basically a cartoon version of Danny Trejo, was voiced my Mike Judge, while Enrique, a “normal” everyday hispanic guy was voiced by Danny Trejo.
J1Pvl TIL in 2012, a tour group visiting Iceland announced that they had lost track of a group member. A woman decided to help with the intense police search to find the fellow traveler. The search lasted for several hours, before the woman realized that the person everyone was searching for was herself.
9YJp7 TIL of the Terrifying Operation Wandering Soul, where American forces would play eerie sounds of voices and mourning, causing the Viet Cong to think it was their dead ancestors and flee the battlefield.