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TIL The reason bus and train seats have such loud colours and patterns is to hide stains and spillages on the seats.

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jNlja TIL about King Tut's dagger, which was found in his tomb and is believed to have been made from iron from a meteor. At the time of King Tut, iron smelting was rare and the iron would have been worth more than gold.
RKGl TIL during pre-Civil War America, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters. About 28 percent of free blacks owned slaves—as opposed to less than 4.8 percent of southern whites, and dramatically more than the 1.4 percent of all white Americans who owned slaves.
R77l TIL 1/3 of divorce papers contain the word ‘facebook’ in them.
yVXAe TIL Dublin is the Irish name equivalent of Blackpool.
RYG8 TIL Birds have two fovea, meaning they can switch between focusing on their central vision and their peripheral vision. You never know when a bird is looking directly at you.