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TIL that much of '80s punk and punk-inspired fashion - fishnets, lipstick, wild hair, androgyny - can be traced directly to the influence of 1975's Rocky Horror Picture Show

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5ynn TIL on April Fools’ Day 1957 the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showed a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from the family “spaghetti tree”. Spaghetti was so little-known that many Britons contacted the BBC for advice on growing their own trees.
eNoJ TIL Wi-Fi was developed by using technology from a failed experiment attempting to detect mini black holes.
XErnX TIL that when Nicholas Colasanto ("Coach" Ernie Pantusso) died, a picture of Geronimo that he loved was moved to the wall of the set of Cheers. Ted Danson (Sam Malone) straightened that picture as the last act in the final episode.
oBbkr TIL water is not colorless. The pure water has a slight blue color that becomes a deeper green as the thickness of the observed sample increases. The blue hue of the water is an intrinsic property and is caused by selective absorption and scattering of white light.
KOAv6 TIL that Dysthanasia is the opposite of Euthanasia and happens when a person is kept alive artificially despite being terminally ill without regard to their quality of life.