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TIL the color used for cigarette packaging in Australia is called "Pantone 448 C", it was chosen after researchers determined that it is the "world's least attractive color."

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d8Kw9 For a moment in Russia, gold falls from the sky.
vkpK TIL that “Kevin” is seen in Germany as a low-class name. In a phenomenon known as “Kevinismus”, those with the name reportedly experience discrimination; a joke claims that “Only druggies and East Germans are named Kevin”.
woVmE TIL most tornados occur between 3pm and 7pm
a8DAo TIL fish aren’t “real” in the way other life forms are, because they don’t form their own distinctive clade. They are instead “mixed in” the phylogenetic trees of other creatures that cannot be classified as “fish.”
oBAgL TIL a "whale fall" is when a whale's carcass sinks down below 1000m and creates a new ecosystem that can rapidly generate adaptations like bone-eating worms