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TIL The roof of some Tesla models appear orange and red when wet due to a protective UV/infrared layer in the glass to reduce heat. Water droplets cause light to bounce around and reflect some of the infrared light (normally not visible to us) in a form that is visible to our eyes

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Me4jB TIL there once existed the Silver Republican Party, a US political party that split from the Republican Party in the 1890s over the issues of bimetallism and free silver. It disbanded in the early 1990s and most of its members joined the GOP, but some went to the Democrats.
rpA0 TIL Cleopatra lived closer to the time of space travel than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.
GYOr4 TIL the US Navy commissioned an Arleigh Burke class Destroyer named after Sir Winston Churchill, only the fourth time a US Navy ship to carry British citizens name.
0wrL5 TIL Cheryl Crane, the daughter of actress Lana Turner, stabbed one of her mother’s boyfriends to death during a domestic struggle at the age of 14 in 1958. It was considered a justifiable homicide and she was deemed to have been protecting her mother. The boyfriend was a known abuser.
mxEjx TIL that Steve Jobs had the only form of pancreatic cancer that was treatable and curable, but relied heavily on alternative medication, which largely attributed to his death.