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TIL Rocky Mountain High by John Denver is Colorado's second official state song

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kbW TIL there is a staffed underwater post office where people have been mailing postcards for years.
ADLAl High-speed video imaging colored to reveal the two main components of a sneeze show a shower of larger droplets, green, whose trajectories can extend up to two meters from the person sneezing, yellow, and a cloud, red, made of a mixture of smaller droplets suspended in moist, warm gas. Pathogen-bearing droplets can be suspended in the air for not just seconds, but minutes, and can travel up to 27 feet.
GAkoN TIL: Algeria was once the #1 export of wine, pre-dating Roman rule and accounted for nearly two-thirds of international trade, until the mid 20th century.
W7y0B TIL in 2020 a bar-tailed godwit broke the "world record" for the longest flight by a bird, flying for 11 days straight from Alaska to New Zealand, a distance of over 12,000 km or 7,500 miles.
JYk4m TIL nearly 1 in 4 people regret getting their tattoos. That translates to roughly 7.5 million people who regret it.