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TIL the Technicolor company had a custom train-car built in the 1910s to process color film on location

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VMPPp TIL - On a clear night humans can see the light from a candle burning 1.6 miles away
VB16k TIL 150 years ago, 12 men in Cincinnati took a chance on baseball and changed the world being the first professional baseball team ever.
Xear TIL that in Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called “Hindi” (“from India”). In India, it’s called “Peru.” In Arabic, the bird is called “Greek chicken”; in Greek it’s called “French chicken”; and in French it’s called “Indian chicken.” The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
ZPVa TIL that through 50 years of experimentation investigating the domestication of wolves, scientists in the USSR (and later Russia) successfully domesticated the Silver Fox, a breed of foxes that behave like dogs
kjke TIL one of the world’s first scanning transmission electron microscopes was destroyed in a bombing raid in WW2.