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TIL that deoxygenated blood isn’t blue, but actually dark red. Light refraction causes deoxygenated blood to appear blue.

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WKeX TIL Alexander Hamilton and James Madison both claimed to have written numbers 49-58 and 62-63 of the Federalist Papers. In 1964, a computer analysis of the text revealed that Madison was indeed the author of all 12 of those essays, despite Hamilton’s claim to the contrary.
KY4a TIL The highest paid hedge fund manager made $3 billion last year. That’s just under $1.5 million dollars an hour.
e0Gg TIL the // at the start of a URL are unnecessary, but the inventor thought they were a good idea at the time.
nxr9 TIL that even if they are cleaned and released, less than 1% of birds covered in oil during crude spills survive. Many experts – including the World Wildlife Fund – believe it would be more humane to kill oiled birds than to try to clean them.
78PoZ TIL that the longest word entered in most standard English dictionaries is Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is 45 letters long and describes a type of lung disease. The longest "word" stands at 189,819 letters long and would not fit in the title of this thread.