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TIL surgical scrubs are green and blue to provide eye relief and a visual contrast to the pinks and reds the surgeon is focusing on

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n1RB TIL: George Washington was a hemp farmer, and his diary included notes about separating male plants from females, necessary for the females to produce THC
DaxP TIL Bill Gates supports a financial transactions/Robin Hood tax
oBZoL TIL that an art collector once kept a statue of Buddha in his home unaware that inside was a 1,000-year-old mummified monk.
6EkaZ TIL 8 Strikers were Shot during the Great Textile Strike of 1934. Strikers took refuge in the nearby cemetery where you can still see damage to gravestones from bullet strikes.
YGrd TIL there is a building in Tokyo built in 1972, whose rooms consist of tiny 90 square foot capsule apartments that can be individually replaced like lego pieces.