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TIL that polar bears are nearly invisible to Infrared photography

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ndYY TIL Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a model of his “death beam”, warning hotel staff to never open it. After his death in 1943 the box was pried open and found to contain nothing but harmless old electrical components.
mxP8Y TIL blue jays aren’t actually blue
QJw6X TIL about Rubble Woman, who, in the aftermath of World War II, helped clear and reconstruct the bombed cities of Germany and Austria. With much of the male population dead or prisoners of war, this monumental task fell to a large degree on women.
nWoB7 TIL that a study in 1974, to test if leading questions can distort eyewitness testimony, indicated that indeed "the questions asked subsequent to an event can cause a reconstruction in one’s memory of that event."
GAoy5 TIL, when walking into a bar in England, Jimi Hendrix and his band were told they weren't welcome by a bartender who said "Sorry, mates, we can't serve your sort in here,". Hendrix thought it was because he was black, but it was because they were mistaken for circus clowns.