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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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JYRV4 TIL: A Petersburg VA home is built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.
8aZNX TIL That Some Sea Slugs Can Remove Their Own Heads and Regrow Their Bodies to escape parasites
JNX8 TIL that Mars has only 10% the mass of the Earth.
WlPB TIL there was such bad communication between the officers on the Titanic that the ship’s quartermaster, George Rowe, did not know the ship was sinking until he asked why he had seen lifeboats being lowered into the water
xVwm1 TIL that Peter Pan has been owned by Great Ormond Street hospital since 1927 - the rights were gifted by the author