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TIL the word candidate comes from the Latin word for white; candidus, because Roman senators wore white togas.

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R7yn6 TIL actress Jamie Alexander, Lady Sif in the MCU, has suffered an astonishing array of injuries while acting.
rjXo TIL during World War 2, Hershey made a bar for US soldiers that was meant to taste so bad, soldiers would only eat it if they were starved
w0g7 TIL that Microsoft used to offer an IRC-based chat software that visually represented chats as sequences of comic panels and looked for cues in the text to help determine the comic character’s gestures and expressions.
nedvd TIL about Lauri Törni, a veteran of three armies. Törni fought as a second lieutenant of the Finnish Army in the Winter War, as a captain of the Waffen-SS in the Eastern Front and as a captain of the U.S Special Forces in Vietnam. Mauno Koivisto, former president of Finland, was under his command.
mxpwo TIL even though newborn kittens are born blind, deaf, and helpless they still hiss at potential threats.