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TIL that you can contract Leprosy from armadillos

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OQM4 TIL Intel corporation gets 100% of its electricity from renewable sources.
69Qdw TIL about Scheele’s Green (aka Schloss Green), an arsenic-laced artificial color very popular in the 19th century, showing up in artificial flowers, candles, toys, fashionable ladies’ clothing, soap, beauty products, confections, and wallpaper and leading to scores of deaths.
4AZR TIL that nurses and doctors wear green or blue scrubs to help relieve eye strain from constantly looking at red (patient’s insides), which is also opposite on the color wheel. They’re easier to wash and keep longer.
LQyPV TIL the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 made Congressional Research Service reports publicly available on the internet for the first time.
DpNY TIL the little plastic thing at the end of data cables is called a Ferrite Bead, and it is used to block interference from radio signals from other electronics.