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TIL that polar bears are nearly invisible to Infrared photography

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MQV8 TIL an operation called Care For Sandy has volunteers using PhotoShop (etc.) to clean up photos (almost) destroyed by the storm.
e0vp5 TIL of Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian Jesuit missionary to China who became the court artist of the Qing Emperors. Rather than just force European art on the Chinese or copy Chinese styles, Giuseppe blended the two styles together, which created an entirely new fusion painting style in Chinese art
XEGZ8 TIL a 20-pound Himalayan house cat went batshit crazy and held a family hostage in their bedroom
DQKwr TIL there was a math question on the 1982 SAT that every single test taker got wrong. The question was so paradoxical that the creators were confused and didn’t include the actual answer as part of the selection. All 300,000 exams had to be rescored.
PYxMg Here comes private space travel — with cocktails, retro-futuristic Philippe Starck designs and Wi-Fi. Just $55 million a trip!