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TIL the Eiffel Tower has been painted nearly twenty times. It’s been shades of red, yellow, brown, and grey, and has never been painted black.

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8ajPV TIL that Robert Ballard's discovery of the Titanic in 1985 was actually a by product. The expedition which found the wreck was funded by the US government to study the effects of radiation from two US Navy submarines which had sunk in the 1960s. The Titanic search was a cover.
5YGMB TIL that melanin forms a protective cap over the nucleus to protect against DNA damage.
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