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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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D17eJ TIL the granite used to build the US Capitol is so radioactive that the building would fail federal safety codes regulating nuclear power plants.
BL9L TIL There are two Underground stations at Victoria in London that are connected and were built more than a century apart
d8rG7 TIL a Vietnamese soldier and his one year old son fled into the jungle during the war and remained there for 40 years, until 2013.
O5V7 TIL theaters used to have “cry rooms”: soundproof rooms at the back of theaters so mothers wouldn’t disturb others with their children
GyPg TIL 52 years ago today the first television signal transmitted via satellite was sent by MIT from CA to MA.