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TIL even people with pale skin can get vitiligo.

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LQ07Q TIL that Studebaker made the world's "largest living advertisement" in 1938 by planting 8k pine trees to spell "STUDEBAKER" if viewed from the sky. Even though Studebaker has been gone for over 50 years, their pine tree logo lives on and is in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
VMKPG TIL there are more possible iterations of chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe.
JYr6k TIL that the wheelchair symbol, known as the International Symbol of Access, is used to denote areas where access has been improved. It does not necessarily mean wheelchair-accessible.
nWyWG TIL that Handel's Sarabande, the theme music for Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon, is originally a solo harpsichord tune.
E1amW Today I learned of the California case Lodi v. Lodi, where a man sued himself, represented himself, and won by default after he failed to show up. The court wrote that “it is hard to imagine a more even-handed application of justice,”.