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TIL that in France, Art Nouveau style was also called Style Jules Verne and Le Style Métro after Hector Guimard’s iron and glass subway entrances.

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DQePP TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo­-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication."
ZWWG TIL that up until the 1960’s, black Americans with cars could purchase a “Green Book” that would tell them which towns across America had colored facilities, which towns didn’t accept black people out after dark, and which places to avoid visiting if they wanted to survive their trip.
bpMp TIL that the “Somebody Else’s Problem” cloaking field described in the “Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” is based on a real psychological effect.
jNL0a Today I learned that undercover cops wear a “Color of the Day” in order to not mistake each other for civilians. Put in place after a white cop killed a black undercover cop.
ZMWG TIL In 2008, Doritos beamed a 30 second advertisement towards a planetary system 42 light years away.