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Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature?

Duh, except for the sky… and the ocean…

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GYWk1 TIL; the Honeyguide is an African bird that evolved alongside early humans and leads humans to honey
X0j4Q TIL that in South Korea there are shamans who worship US General Douglas MacArthur. They will sometimes Don sunglasses and a pipe while claiming to be possessed by his spirit.
jZgp TIL: If the sun was scaled to the size of basketball; Mercury would be the size of a grain of sand-33 feet away, Earth would be the size of a BB shot-86 feet away, Jupiter would be the size of a gumball-445 feet away, and the nearest star would be another basketball-5000 miles away!
d8A87 TIL that metal stretchers used to transport dead/wounded citizens after WWII airraids in London were repurposed to be used as fences around apartment buildings. Some are still in use today.
QJLkL TIL of the Bengal Famine of 1943. Winston Churchill had food diverted away from Bengal to Europe, resulting in as many as four million Bengali deaths. His response was that Indians 'breed like rabbits anyway.'