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TIL that there's a standard way of creating false color astronomical images called the Hubble Palette

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PVLL TIL Twitch (the video game streaming platform) was originally called Justin.tv which was Justin Kan live streaming his whole life with a camera clipped to his hat and a 30lb backpack that held the computer that would send the data over a cell phone network.
W4JA TIL The Ray Charles Foundation is dedicated to funding research for hearing disorders. When Ray was asked why, he said it was because music saved his life, and he wouldn’t know what to do if he couldn’t experience it.
D1gZv TIL, in 1947, the FBI considered “It’s A Wonderful Life” to be Communist propaganda
bWW9 TIL that Beer was probably one of the most crucial and influential inventions of mankind, possibly even influencing the invention/discovery of mathematics and written language.
eKZ5 TIL The only time the letter Y is a vowel is when your tongue doesn’t touch your palate (roof of mouth). If it does then it is a consonant. examples being yellow = consonant, sky = vowel.