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TIL the wild turkey was only 1 vote away from beating the bald eagle as America’s national bird

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awQWL TIL about the remote island chain in the pacific called the Pitcairn Islands and how they have one settlement of about 50 people who are almost all decended from the mutineers of the HMS Bounty and the indiginous Tahitians the mutineers had with them.
BgK6L TIL: A study on gender and food identified significant statistical differences. Men strongly preferred meat while women prefer vegetables, chocolate, and whole grains. Men are hungry before dinner, while women are hungry in the morning and more likely to snack throughout the day. Men also eat faster
M7oVB TIL what I was taught is wrong. The pigment primary colors are not Red Yellow Blue. Red & Green are not complementary. Red's complement is Cyan, because Cyan pigment perfectly absorbs red light. The pigment primaries are cyan magenta and yellow, opposite of the light primaries Red, Green, and yellow
nWNbd TIL that the mosquitoes that bites people are just only the female mosquitoes and that the males are busy with nectar.
YQxA TIL: Jimmy Carter installed 32 solar panels on the White House roof. When Ronald Reagan took office, one of his first actions was to have the panels, which his chief-of-staff allegedly said Reagan felt were “just a joke,” removed.