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TIL Polar bears are almost completely invisible to infrared cameras

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D1GbV TIL the United States of America not only used the Marshall Islands as a nuclear bomb test site, but also used the Natives as Guinea pigs for their radioactive experiments.
W7LAo TIL: Red bell peppers are just ripe green bell peppers.
epAyn TIL that people dug(bored) a 40,000 ft. deep hole that is also not deep at all. Despite a fairly narrow diameter of only 9” and penetrating less than 0.2% to the center of the Earth, it took 20 years.
yWZV TIL during the aftermath of the I-40 bridge collapse which killed 14 people, a convicted felon was able to impersonate an Army captain and take command of the disaster scene, including FBI agents at the site.
ajZo TIL that the guitar riff for ’(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction’ popped into Keith Richards’ head as he was going to sleep in a hotel one night. He quickly recorded it and went to sleep. When he woke up, he heard the soon to be iconic riff and “then me snoring for the next 40 minutes.”