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TIL the average color of light in the universe is a shade of beige dubbed “Cosmic Latte”

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kOEDE TIL "This Land Is Your Land," by Woody Guthrie, a popular American folk song among patriots, was originally created as a criticism of Capitalism and the U.S. government by a Communist labor organizer.
XlnX TIL that hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of Chinese have been detained in labour camps or prisons since 1999 where they are subject to abuse, torture, and organ harvesting because they practice Falun Gong
LQx5m TIL of Ziad Fazah. He claims to be able to speak, read and understand 59 languages.
K7OR TIL that Pablo Picasso carried a revolver loaded with blanks, which he would shot at people who asked about the meaning of his paintings.
vPEAD Today I learned about the Oh-My-God particle: an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected on 15 October 1991. As of 2023 it is the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed and the time of its detection it was traveling at 0.9999999999999999999999951 times the speed of light.