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TIL that the longest running laboratory experiment started in 1927 and is still being conducted.

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LkQp0 New research suggests that the way chameleons change color is very different from what scientists had assumed. In this week’s "Today I Learned" filmmaker and National Geographic Grantee Jason Jaacks explains that the color change is controlled by nanocrystals in a top layer of the lizards' skin.
gml9 TIL that in 1986, the United Way released 1.5 million balloons in Cleveland as a world record attempt. The release caused two deaths, millions in damages, and untold environmental damage
v1Q7 TIL internet-famous “Jesus Riding Dinosaur” is the original art of Francesca Berrini - and she did much more along those lines.
ME8a TIL there is a type of algae that is one of the most massive single cells in the world, up to the size of a lemon.
gMv99 TIL Yousuf Karsh, the photographer of the scowling Winston Churchill portrait took the photo after snatching Churchill's cigar while he was smoking it.