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TIL: The famous red sky in “The Scream” painting is probably from the eruption of Krakatoa. For several months, the sky was red, the moonlight appeared green, and the sun turned a lavender colour.

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J1OBQ TIL "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" is a recent and unsourced saying, and nothing indicates it is the true origin of the phrase "blood is thicker than water"
6ba7 TIL, former US president, Franklin Roosevelt, proposed a second Bill of Rights that assured US citizens such things like the right to a job with a living wage, adequate medical care, the right to a decent home, and the right to a good education.
R5bE7 TIL when the directors of Harold and Kumar (2004) took their movie to film producers, the producers said "we really love this movie", but wanted to change the main characters from Korean and Indian to "a White guy and a Black dude"
9YV9X TIL of Francis Tsai, an artist who did work for Marvel, and was later diagnosed with ALS. When the disease paralyzed his arms, he learned to draw using his right foot on an iPhone. When he was no longer able to use his feet, he used eye-gaze technology in order to keep drawing.
jN4Ba TIL Englishman Dan Harris wanted to help bees struggling in urban areas such as on pavement with no flowers. So he crowdfunded "bee saviour" credit card sized feeders with 3 notches of beekeepers’ formula under a peel-off foil backing to sell for £4 via his not-for-profit co-op.