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TIL Liquid oxygen has a pale blue color

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L4P0 TIL The terms “left” and “right” in politics appeared during the French Revolution of 1789 when members of the National Assembly divided into supporters of the king to the president’s right and supporters of the revolution to his left.
neYJP TIL the movie "Lake Placid" is set at a place named "Lake Black". The only reference to 'placid' in the movie is the line: "they wanted to call it 'Lake Placid,' but somebody said that name was taken."
M71e8 TIL: In 2008, Japan sent sakura(cherry blossom) seeds to the ISS and it spent 8 months onboard. After reaching the planet Earth, they planted those seeds from where they were collected and surprisingly, the tree bloomed in just 4 years instead of 10 and the flowers bloomed with 6 petals instead of 5
ANXWo TIL that there is a collection of counterintuitive mathematical objects called "pathological objects" that mathematicians commonly use to disprove conjectures or provide exceptions.
5YZbP TIL that the 1994 movie Baby's Day Out was reviewed very negatively by critics in the west, named the worst movie of the year by The Buffalo News and grossed only $16 million dollars in the US and Canada. However, in India, it was considered more popular than Star Wars and was remade 3 times.