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TIL Brad Pitt was on Jackass, twice.

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R7m56 TIL that the dull side of aluminum foil is non-stick, not the shiny side!
VvO4 TIL Stetson Kennedy inflitrated the KKK, learned their rituals and codewords,and provided these to the writers of the Superman program, which produced 16 episodes in which Superman fought the Klan, leading to a steep drop in recruitment.
KpLa TIL John Deere has been using the DMCA to stop anyone but dealerships from working on their equipment. Citing the potential to pirate music using the tractor’s entertainment system among other reasons
d846Z TIL the Snoop Dogg pleaded to his brother-in-law, the Peanut Butter Jelly Time singer, to surrender to cops after an 11 hour showdown
OoGOX The sky appears blue for a combination of two reasons. Before white light reaches the Earth's surface, the light waves collide with and bounce off of the nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the atmosphere. Different frequencies of light (in other words different colours) are scattered differently. Higher frequencies (blue and purple) are more easily scattered and thus bounce around in all different directions more than lower frequencies (red or orange) do. The scattering of high frequencies alone would cause the sky to appear blue and purple, but our eyes work better at frequencies near the middle of the spectrum (yellow and green). Since the colour blue is closer to yellow or green than purple is, the sky we see appears blue.