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TIL if you get poisoned by silver it will turn your skin irreversibly blue known medically as argyria.

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QNXLk TIL that Blue Olives exist. How is it that no one considers these when searching for rare blue fruits? These put blueberries to shame in terms of colour.
0wJeR TIL that in the 2002 "It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie", the Twin Towers are shown still standing in an alternate reality where Kermit was never born. This could imply that, somehow, Kermit was responsible for 9/11.
dDLrr TIL in the beginning of 20th century, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was ended bc the British Empire refused to accept Japanese proposal of Racial Equality Clause. Turning the later World War 2 moral positions on its head.
oLxW TIL Paraguay’s first dictator, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, forbade colonial citizens from marrying one another and allowed them to marry only blacks, mulattoes or natives, in order to break the power of colonial-era elites and to create a mixed-race or mestizo society.
epnlE TIL the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in April 1989 that would delay the end of PDT in presidential election years until after the election. Never signed into law, Pacific-New was inserted into many west coast Unix systems and they failed to make the conversion to PST on 1992 Oct 25.