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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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9LO7 TIL there is a computer keyboard with buttons like “super”, “hyper”, and allows to type over 8000 different characters.
PYEvG TIL In 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed an order making beer an alcoholic drink. The law went into effect on Jan 1st 2013. Before this, any drink under 10% alcohol was considered a soft drink.
v1pOB TIL: The 1997 Albanian Civil War was precipitated by an economic crisis caused by the collapse of several enormous pyramid schemes which over 2/3 of the country's population had invested in.
YpQG7 TIL Djibouti author Abdourahman Waberi wrote a story about a world in which Africa was more advanced compared to the West. In her writing, Zurich held the highest rate of AIDS infections and African leaders were making broad pronouncements about the hoards of impoverished, starving Japanese
b6Elp TIL Voltron was adapted from two unrelated shows, Beast King GoLion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV. GoLion forms the first half of the series while Dairugger forms the lesser known and lesser well regarded second half of the series.