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TIL that in the 1960s Goodyear Tire manufactured illuminated tires in different colors.

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AD0Kx TIL the 5 largest power stations in the world are all hydroelectric
NDXN TIL that the most brilliantly colored thing found in nature is a bright blue berry, as shiny as a mirror, that contains no pigment at all
7ryXr TIL Joaquin Phoenix's birth name is Joaquin Bottom.
kO0GW TIL that on the first night of Jerry Sandusky's prison sentence, inmates taunted him all night singing the Pink Floyd lyrics, "Hey, teacher! Leave those kids alone!"
m1XDY TIL DST was conceptualized by Ben Franklin in a satire piece about saving money on candles, proposed in the 1890's by and entomologist wanting more daylight to bug-hunt, implimented in WWI as an energy saving measure, and is now used to provide workers with more daylight.