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TIL the reason that (research) submarines are yellow is because yellow is one of the last few colours to be visible at great depth.

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4kVRb TIL that the British call crosswalks "zebra crossings"
WkBk9 TIL Multiple courts in America have condemned the use of the conjunction "and/or." One judge called it " that Janus-faced verbal monstrosity, neither word nor phrase, the child of a brain of someone too lazy or too dull to know what he did mean"
OoAka TIL two-thirds of the apple juice consumed in the US comes from China
kJZbg TIL in 2021, Lady Gaga's dogs were stolen in a violent robbery. Jennifer McBride got the dogs from the thieves and returned them, hoping for Gaga's $500,000 reward. A judge ruled she can't claim it, as handling stolen property is a crime. McBride's role in the crime barred her from profiting.
woXJE TIL Psycho (1960) is the first U.S. film to feature a toilet flushing. At the time, it was considered inappropriate to show a toilet being flushed on screen. Alfred Hitchcock saw an opportunity to add some extra shock to his already shocking film