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TIL that in 2002 we calculated the average color of the observable universe, and named it „Cosmic Latte“

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kJeyd TIL that after WW1 the German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and was allowed to seek asylum in the Netherlands. He lived there until his death in 1941.
OvaR TIL of the Burkitshi - nomadic hunters of Mongolia. They capture a golden eagle at the age of four, and train it to become a hunting partner. The Burkitshi live and sleep with the eagle for ten years, and then it is released back into the wilderness before death.
9wODG TIL Wayne Brady wrote a spoken word called: “A Piece by the Angriest Black Man in America (or, How I Learned to Forgive Myself for Being a Black Man in America)”
PbYE TIL A bank in Utah was made using parcel post delivered bricks, around one ton of bricks sent a day. After the building was completed, the regulations were changed, with the post office claiming “It is not the intent of the post office that buildings be sent through mail.”
Y7pkA TIL tears drain into your nose