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TIL that Pantone’s infamous “ugliest color” was renamed from olive green in Australia after offense from actual olive growers

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QJmba TIL that Killing Hope, the book about the history of US backed coups around the world, is publicly available on CIA.gov
dDaoB TIL Bed bugs have to feed on human blood about once a week and can live several months without a "blood meal". They aggregate usually within about eight feet of where a person sleeps and can travel more than 100 feet in a single night
b600 TIL there was a pre-WWII movement called Technocracy, which held that scientists and engineers should take over the government and economy from politicians and economists. The leader of the movement was known as the Great Engineer.
b6Ova TIL that William and Ellen Craft, two people enslaved in the American South, fled to the North in the 1840s, with Ellen (who was more light-skinned than William) posing as William's male master. They escaped to the U.K., where they raised five children, and eventually moved back to the U.S. in 1868.
4rZo TIL the Voltaire quote co-opted by the far-right movement, “to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise” is actually a false quote attributed to Voltaire, and was likely first used by White Supremacist Kevin Strom in 1993, 215 years after Voltaire’s death.