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TIL Indium the element was not named for India, but for indigo the color. The spectrum of indium has a bright emission line at 451 nm and happened to correspond with one of Isaac Newton's rainbow colors.

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EK4X TIL that all unreleased Kennedy assassination documents are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017, twenty-five years after the passage of the JFK Records Act. Among the items most sought after by researchers are some 1,171 documents still closed by the CIA on national security grounds.
NXMDP TIL that a human who eats feces may suffer from a tumor.
exYn TIL a Subaru production plant in Lafayette, Indiana has celebrated almost a decade of being ‘zero landfill’, while producing more than 1.7 million cars. The plant is also a designated wildlife habitat, co-existing peacefully with wildlife in the area.
0LoL TIL That Sauron has a rich backstory in Lord of the Rings, and at one point turned into a Vampire and hid in the woods. There were also Werewolves.
8knG TIL Soviet Cosmonaut knew he was doomed before he reentered, and spent his final minutes crying in rage.