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TIL of Crayola's Law, which states: The number of Crayola crayon colors doubles every 28 years.

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v178D TIL former first lady Helen Herron Taft declared that all waiters in the White House would need to have a full head of hair, and banned all bald-headed butlers from the dining room.
7rZRb TIL: When foxes discovered fairy penguins on a small Australian island, they nearly wiped the colony out. Swampy Marsh, a chicken farmer, began sending Maremma dogs to protect the birds. Over the next 10 years not a single penguin was killed by a fox.
0Jkp TIL when heroin is used medicinally, typically after a heart attack/major surgery for pain, it is called “diamorphine”. The word “heroin” is only used when discussing the drug in its illegal form.
VjV4 TIL we can predict spontaneous decisions ~7.5 seconds before people become consciously aware of them.
N7wRM TIL that on the night of September 10th, 2001, an artist by the name Monika Bravo filmed 7 hours of footage of a thunderstorm from the 91st floor of the WTC North Tower. She took the raw footage home with her that night. The next morning, both towers collapsed. The video she edited is found here: