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TIL all of Terry Pratchett’s unfinished novels and work have been destroyed by a steamroller following his wishes before he died

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4XZvJ TIL that color photography has existed since 1907. The "autochrome" process used millions of microscopic red, green and blue colored potato starch grains that filtered light before it reached the emulsion on a glass plate.
nWgd7 TIL that Tierra del Fuego, the remote southern tip of South America, once produced 90 percent of the air conditioners, cell phones, TVs and microwaves sold in Argentina
VB1AZ TIL on 1905, in order to promote her novel, 29-year-old Edith Allonby killed herself
lBRA TIL that mountain goats aren’t actually goats. They are antelopes.
kOMP1 TIL about industrial melanism,where darkly pigmented insects are selected over lightly coloured ones in industrial areas,because the trees are blackened by soot and provide camouflage.