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TIL most worms are actually a bright pink, but look brown because of their habitat and diet.

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4krRX TIL that it used to be a requirement for people in the United States to submit to a blood test when they were applying for marriage licenses. The last state to get rid of this mandatory testing was Montana in 2019.
wLnW7 TIL African Americans made up a significant portion of the Continental army fighting the British in the American Revolution. At the Siege of Yorktown, one German officer estimated the American army to be about one-quarter black.
GG41 TIL that ‘Mein Keimpf’ by Adolf Hitler is the second-worst rated book on GoodReads. Number one is 'Dianetics’ by L. Ron Hubbard.
GYe0g TIL That Subhas Ramsaywack who played a Janitor named Subhas on the TV show 30 Rock, was an actual janitor who worked at Silvercup Studios, where the show was filmed.
QoVa TIL that during the Cold War, the Soviet Union could tell fake passports from real ones because of the quality of the staples. Real passports would have poor quality because of the lack of quality metal.