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TIL that Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is Red-Green colorblind and blue is the richest color he sees.

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LQObp TIL Nicotine isn't only found in the Tobacco plant, it is also found in potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and even eggplants.
W7Oo4 TIL that there is only one confirmed attempt by British colonists to infect natives with smallpox. In 1763, native warriors laid siege to Fort Pitt. After negotiations to abandon the fort failed, the British gave the emissaries two blankets and a handkerchief from a smallpox infected patient
e0DB6 Male dolphins use individual names throughout their life. “This is the coolest thing ever.”
gMrJb TIL in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 there were too many bodies to bury so the corpses were dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. Shortly thereafter the bodies began to wash back onshore and survivors constructed funeral pyres to burn the corpses. The fires burned day and night for weeks.