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TIL that the Gulf Stream is the reason for the caucasian skin color, blonde hair, and blue eyes.

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vPjgR TIL Tomoaki Hamatsu participated in the show "Susunu! Denpa Shōnen" where he was locked up for 335 days, he had to survive by winning things in the lottery and at the same time he started in a practically empty room and naked
Eop0 TIL a city in Sweden uses light therapy in bus stops to combat depression during winter when 19 hours of the day are darkness
D19xp TIL During WWII, Robert Johnson II’s Permacell division of Johnson&Johnson invented duct tape as a sealant for ammunition boxes to keep them from becoming waterlogged.
MepDa TIL In the early 1930s one of the measures enacted by Brazil to alleviate the economic impact from the great depression was "Quota do sacrifício" [or Quota of Sacrifice] where the government ordered farmers to collect all coffee, pile it up and light it on fire.
PVKJ TIL that Frank Lloyd Wright while designing Fallingwater for the Kaufmann family did the initial design in 2 hours before their meeting, since he had lied to them and hadn’t actually start the plan.