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TIL The Color Of Water is "Slight Blue" and not "Colorless"

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6OxX TIL The Sims project was in danger of being cancelled until two female sims with free will enabled spontaneously fell in love and kissed during a live demo
7rpXb TIL: In Norse mythology, Thor once dressed as a bride and was presented to the giant thrym with loki as his bridesmaid. Thrym got a bit suspicious When Thor ate an entire ox, eight salmon, and many barrels of mead.
wLvMY TIL the Venus Fly Trap and Mimosa plants are susceptible to anesthesia
8aPxa TIL of Andre Geim, the only person to win both a Nobel Prize for graphene, and an Ig Nobel Prize for levitating a frog.
x6jW7 TIL in the 1893 case of Nix v. Hedden, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, for purposes of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, tomatoes are vegetables. The Supreme Court relied on the fact that tomatoes are usually used as vegetables since they're normally served with dinner and not dessert.