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TIL Greek statues were actually painted in vivid color. Over time the pigment faded, leaving the white statues that we are used to.

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A6Za TIL: the Indian state of Nagaland is over 75% baptist, a percentage higher than Texas or Mississippi, making it ‘the most baptist state in the world’.
N71OQ TIL of the Red Ghost, a camel that wandered the Arizona desert for 10 years with a human skeleton strapped to its back
mG7O TIL in the US west of Washington DC there’s a National Radio Quiet Zone - 13,000 square miles (34,000 sq km) of radio silence where cellphones are banned
b98x4 TIL Australian dog food has kangaroo meat in it
x6an0 TIL The S-shaped bars on the sides of hearses are called "landau bars" and are a nod to the elongated hinges used to fold the convertible roofs of 18th-century carriages