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TIL carrots used to be purple until they were bred orange.

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d5VB TIL when building the Golden Gate Bridge, the lead structural engineer insisted on the installation of a safety net even though its $130,000 cost was deemed exorbitant. Over the four years of its construction, the net saved 19 men, who named themselves the “Halfway to Hell Club.”
ELgo TIL: the US solar industry employs twice the amount of workers than that of coal, oil, and natural gas combined
x6k1g TIL of Dr. Jochem Hoyer, a German transplantation surgeon who argued in favour of altruistic organ donations. After a colleague criticized him for praising "living donors as long as it is NOT you who has to donate" Hoyer donated a kidney to an unknown stranger to make a quote "very strong statement"
nebAW TIL a Florida man was shot by a Dog when he tried to execute six puppies.
X6ek TIL Keanu Reeves donated all his earnings (> $35 mil) from The Matrix to his special effects team, it made all of them multi-millionaires.