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Today I learned that the "Marquee Moon" cover photo is an early color photocopy.

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VeMZ TIL the United States advanced billions of dollars to over 90 nations before, during and immediately after WWII, to friend and foe alike. Only one repaid their debt to the penny-Finland.
xZB7 TIL that in 2015 more people died trying to take selfies than from shark attacks
ne909 TIL that Jon Bon Jovi's first professional recording was singing backup vocals on the 1980 Star Wars tie-in Christmas album "Christmas In The Stars." The only reason he got the gig was because his cousin Tony managed the studio where the album was recorded and had hired him as a janitor.
8e7bb TIL that in the first 40 years of the US Interstate Highway System, it directly saved the lives of 187,000 people, prevented injuries to nearly 12 million people and returned $6 in economic productivity for each dollar that it costs.
l7JXA TIL that more men than women are colorblind, not because knowing colors is considered a feminine trait, but because it is a sex-linked gene. Colorblindness is a recessive trait on the X chromosome, so men only need one bad X to be colorblind, whereas women need two.