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TIL that before the 16th century, most carrots were purple

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E1E4w TIL Teddy Roosevelt regularly staged boxing matches in the White House, taking on anyone he could - including professional boxers. He only stopped boxing when his eyesight was permanently damaged by a punch from his military aide, Col. Daniel T. Moore.
dDLXZ TIL about humorous variations of Murphy’s law. Some best ones include: Fetridge’s law which states that important things do not happen when they are supposed to, especially when people are looking & Patrick’s theorem: If an experiment works, you are probably using the wrong equipment
ANg4l TIL that in Singapore, one would require a permit to own a car known as the Certificate of Entitlement (COE), often costing as much as the vehicle itself, if not more. Introduced in 1990, its implementation is largely due to regulate the growth of cars in the country.
0d5KN TIL about “Draupadi Pratha,” a rare tradition practiced in the Indian Himalayan states of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, where a woman marries multiple brothers in the same family (fraternal polyandry), inspired by the Mahabharata’s Draupadi, and followed historically to preserve family land.
grY4A TIL there's another Y2K in 2038, Y2K38, when systems using 32-bit integers in time-sensitive/measured processes will suffer fatal errors unless updated to 64-bit.