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TIL Plants also use photosynthetic pigments that are not green. Most of the time we can’t see these other pigments because their colors get overpowered by the green color pigments.⁠

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WBVY TIL Louis Le Prince, who filmed the first ever motion pictures, disappeared without a trace in 1890. Thomas Edison soon took credit as the first and sole inventor of cinema, and even took Le Prince’s son to court to dispute it. Few years later, the son also died under mysterious circumstances.
6DPY TIL The first guy to win “Who Wants to be Millionnaire?” John Carpenter, used none of his lifelines until the final question, where he called his Dad and told him that he didn’t need any help on the final question and just wanted to let him know that he is about to win 1,000,000$
vA7K TIL the often-quoted idiom “seeing is believing” leaves out half of the original sentence. The full quote from 17th century English clergyman, Thomas Fuller, is “Seeing is believing, but feeling is the truth.”
n7bY TIL that Canada has a larger average penis size than that of the USA.
vPNWr TIL: Internet joke ‘Boaty McBoatface’ was commemorated on a 50p coin