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TIL of Vivianite—a bright blue mineral that forms on skeletal remains when a person is buried in a waterlogged area containing a lot of iron and little oxygen. The phosphate leaking from their remains mixes with these elements to form crystal formations, which help preserve the remains over time.

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0dwav TIL David Bowie rejected Coldplay's collaboration request on one song in which they had, according to the band themselves, a "David Bowie-type character" by replying: "It's not a very good song, is it?"
rROAW TIL of the bald-hairy joke, which states that Russian leaders have been alternately bald and not bald (hairy) since 1825. For example, Lenin (bald) was succeeded by Stalin (hairy), who in turn was succeeded by Khrushchev (bald), then Brezhnev (hairy)
E1amW Today I learned of the California case Lodi v. Lodi, where a man sued himself, represented himself, and won by default after he failed to show up. The court wrote that “it is hard to imagine a more even-handed application of justice,”.
69D7w TIL that Staying Alive, the sequel to Saturday Night Fever, in which John Travolta tries to make it on Broadway, is also notable for having been written and directed by Sylvester Stallone
Oo8VL TIL of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect, coined by Michael Crichton after discussions with Nobel-Prize winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann, which defines the idea that, "I believe everything the media tells me except for anything for which I have direct personal knowledge, which they always get wrong."