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TIL Astronaut’s visors are covered in a thin layer of gold which reflects sunlight, therefore reducing glare

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W7gyo TIL That King Charles II hid in an oak tree from parliamentarian forces after the defeat at the Battle of Worcester. Many English pubs were named 'The Royal Oak' to celebrate his escape.
lGAa TIL of ‘Code of the Secret Service’, a movie which lead actor Ronald Reagan called “the worst picture I ever made.” The film inspired a man named Jerry Sparr to join the Secret Service, who in 1981, saved President Ronald Reagan from an assassination attempt
9w6VX TIL: In 2010, New Jersey lost $400 million in federal education reform money due to submitting data from the wrong school year. This lost them 4.8 points, making them fall 3 points short of receiving federal aid which went to Ohio instead. People have called this a "stunning $400 million mistake"
W7kj9 TIL that there was a blue man named Paul “Papa Smurf” Karason who had a rare skin condition that made his skin entirely blue from high red blood cell count which caused his skin not to release oxygen at normal levels
nevBG TIL the Japanese work philosophy of “kaizen”, where people constantly seek to find ways to improve methods instead of just doing it the same way