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TIL beetroot juice was actually used as red hair dye in the 16th century, particularly by Victorians.

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JYmQ TIL that MIT students have a history of some of the most awesome pranks that have ever been pulled, including hacking the lighting system of one building on campus and rigging it so that they could play Tetris using the windows as tiles.
X0pnD TIL Texas almost sent it's state militia to seize Santa Fe from the United States government by force and could have triggered an earlier American Civil War in the 1850s with prominent Southern and Northern newspapers or legislators warning about this possibility
wLBoM TIL: All the American Flags On the Moon Are Now White due to radiation from the sun.
v9yj TIL chemists Lea & Perrins created the recipe for a fermented liquid condiment in the 1830s, however it wasn’t to their liking and was set aside and forgotten about. When the barrels were rediscovered many months later, the taste had mellowed into what is now known as Worcestershire sauce.
AGAo TIL that there is a search engine specifically for porn searches, developed by former Google employees!