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TIL: Because of the way our eyes see combinations of frequencies of light, green can never dominate the color of a star.

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LyMd TIL In 1986, a team of Canadian researchers exhumed the body of William Brane, a sailor who died 140 years earlier during the Franklin Expedition of 1846. After being removed from the permafrost and thawed, the body was still flexible, and intestinal flora were found still living inside.
lPbN TIL 3 Musketeers candy bars used to contain 3 bars; one chocolate, one strawberry, and one vanilla.
4X9Da TIL that in earlier cuts of The Lion King, Simba was raised by Scar after Mufasa's death.
0w5kj TIL that Apollo 12 was an exercise in precision landing targeting, and succeeded in landing within walking distance of the Surveyor-3 probe that was launched a few years earlier.
nenjr TIL when shooting the cover for Pink Floyd's "Animals", the giant inflatable pig that was used for it broke loose from its moorings. It flew over Heathrow, and pilots spotted it flying 30,000 feet in the air, resulting in cancelled flights. It eventually landed at a farm in Kent, scaring some cows.