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TIL Simpsons creator Matt Groening chose yellow for the color of the characters because he wanted viewers to think the color on their television was off balance.

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XEeE6 TIL the U.S. Army has the most overweight troops out of all the military branches
7WdO TIL a high school in Tucson, Arizona had a Mexican American/ethnic studies program that graduated 93% of its students (vs. the 48% of Latinos graduating statewide) before it was banned for being un-American in 2010.
yQPYv TIL that when NASA was preparing for Sally Ride to travel as the first American female astronaut, engineers initially were at a loss about how many tampons to send. “Is 100 the right number?” they asked her. “No. That would not be the right number,” she replied.
QLQe TIL that the most dangerous and deadliest animals in Africa based on the estimated number of human fatalities are the Mosquitoes and Hippos.
X476 TIL that lethal injections in China are administered in mobile execution vans