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TIL the color Brown is really the color Orange - but darker.

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6EWmm TIL that Twinkies switched from their original banana cream filling to their now standard vanilla cream filling due to the rationing of bananas during WW2.
D1j6P TIL that many public libraries in the US participate in Inter Library Loan (ILL). That means you have access to virtually any book, journal,magazine or dvd held by any library in the country
4Xpew TIL the king cobra (Ophiophagus Hannah) is technically not a cobra (doesn't belong to the Naja genus). It's called the king cobra because it kills and eats other cobras.
5VlBP TIL that the Watergate scandal began when burglars acting on behalf of the Nixon administration broke into Democratic campaign headquarters. They were caught because their lookout (posted in a hotel next door) was watching "Attack of the Puppet People" on TV and didn't notice the police arriving.
a86bJ TIL Superdollars still exist and new "editions" are are discovered every year. They are of such high-quality it's suspected they are produced by a Nation or State actor.