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TIL green coloured clothing was rare in Europe up until arsenic-based green dyes were invented in the late-1700s. Before that, to create green the fabric first had to be dyed yellow and then dyed again with an expensive blue dye. Results with this process were inconsistent & hard to control.

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ANkwo TIL of Malthusians. They believe a finite earth can’t sustain mankind’s indefinite expansion unless checked by law, war, famine, or natural disaster
5Y8L9 TIL Patrick from SpongeBob SquarePants is portrayed as dimwitted and lacking common sense because starfish do not have a brain.
AZRo TIL Medal of Honor recipient Roy Benavidez was shot 7 times, had 28 shrapnel holes in him, was clubbed by a rifle, slashed by a bayonet twice before he left the battlefield. When mistakenly identified as dead, he spit blood in the medic’s face
xVVw7 The queen, who was deposed by a coup led by American sugar planters, died 100 years ago, but is by no means forgotten
yP8v TIL of the Brabham formula 1 fan car. Fans were used to suck air out from under the car. Air-tight ‘hover-car like’ skirts allowed the fans to develop negative pressure beneath the chassis. This effectively allowed the car to 'stick to the road’. It won its only race before being banned.