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TIL the highly expensive paint “Ultramarine blue” is named not after it’s ocean-blue color, but instead means “from beyond the sea” (i.e. imported from Asia)

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40Gw TIL that when C-SPAN asked for illegal copies of Stephen Colbert’s controversial 2006 White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech to be removed from Youtube, Google bought the rights to the video and therey saved the viral videos which were already watched 2.7M times in under 48 hours.
ooGW TIL Netscape Navigator isn’t dead - it’s code was open sourced, improved and expanded upon, and is now known as Mozilla Firefox.
mW5R TIL that it took an average of 52,000 bullets to make a single kill by regular infantry units during the Vietnam War.
xVNX1 TIL of the song "September When It Comes" written by Rosanne Cash and performed with her father Johnny Cash on her 2003 album "Rules of Travel". Johnny Cash would in fact pass in September of that year.
5van TIL Sir Isaac Newton was a member of parliament in the UK, but his only contribution to the debates was to request the window to be closed because of a cold draught