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TIL that Rainbows are affected by polarization.

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JYWO4 TIL The Far Side's cartoonist, Gary Larson, has three species of of insects, one a chewing louse, named after him to thank him for the celebration of science in the comic.
LkYZd TIL that the sleepover scene in Grease where Rizzo sings "Elvis, Elvis, let me be! Keep that pelvis far from me!” was shot on the same day that Elvis Presley died.
J1N0m TIL that Rebecca Sugar, the creator of Steven Universe, is the great-granddaughter-in-law of Theodosia Okoh, the person responsible for the design of the flag of Ghana.
GA6WN TIL that oranges actually (mostly) stay green in tropical countries, because the green chlorophyll in the skin only decomposes if the temperatures gets colder as they ripen (leaving only the orange pigment visible)
1Vp8 TIL In the late Devonian period (during the evolution of terrestrial plants), there was a ‘wood crisis’. Trees became abundant, took CO2 out of the air, and caused an ice age, simply because the fungi that eventually would decompose dead wood & return the CO2 to the air hadn’t evolved yet.