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TIL why Tom Wolfe wore a white suit. The pioneer of 'New Journalism' said that the unusual clothing caused others to see him as "a man from Mars, the man who didn't know anything and was eager to know", so talked freely to him. The white suit became Wolfe's trademark from 1962 to his death.

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EgJEx TIL that Technicolor is named after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where two of the founders of Technicolor, Inc., Herbert Kalmus and Daniel Frost Comstock, received their undergraduate degrees in 1904.
VMeA0 TIL the most remote settlement on Earth is Edinburgh of the Seven Seas, located on the island Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. The settlement nearest to it is on Saint Helena, 1350 miles away.
4XbjX TIL about Dagen H day. On September 3, 1967 Sweden switched from driving on the left-hand side of the road to the right, causing a brief but monumental traffic jam.
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