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TIL Hershey trademarked the color orange.

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0wyNv TIL that Dr. Leroy Chiao was doing squats on the International Space Station when he accidentally found a way to ripple the solar arrays at a low frequency. Another astronaut later tried to use this technique to help loosen a solar array that got stuck.
Zmw4 TIL That the original proverb is “Blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the Womb” meaning that chosen friends are more important than family, which you can’t chose.
orLW TIL that the word doppelganger, commonly used to refer to someone’s look-alike, is actually a German word meaning “double-walker” referring to paranormal duplicates of a real person.
X96X TIL that the only Americans with their own personal zip code are the President and Smokey Bear.
0d7Kp TIL The song "Yankee Doodle" was originally sung by the British during the Revolutionary War to mock Americans. "Yankee doodle dandy" meant an uncultured, effeminate, American. When the Americans began winning, they started singing the song themselves to mock the British.