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TIL Humans actually emit light (but very dim)

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KYWwE TIL that the color "orange" didn't exist in the English language until the fruit was introduced.
QJD7L TIL of the "Running of the Interns", in which interns of news organizations run up to a quarter-mile to deliver a paper copy of the US Supreme Court's opinion on major cases, as recording devices are not permitted within the building.
LQgnm TIL Frank Sinatra hated his hit song "Strangers in the Night." He thought it was "a piece of shit" and called it "the worst fucking song" he had ever heard. Sinatra almost didn't record it because it sounded like it was "about two f*gs who meet in the bus station bathroom."
G601 TIL the song Fly Me to the Moon was the first music ever heard and played on the Moon, when Buzz Aldrin played it on a cassette tape.
nern9 TIL In 1915 a woman was found alive after her sister ran late to her funeral, then demanded she see her sister one more time. When they dug her out, the woman sat up and smiled, she went on to live for 47 more years.