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TIL: The first synthetic dye of the color fuchsia was originally named after a botanist (Fuchs) but renamed Magenta to celebrate a battle victory.

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4XgYX TIL about the Controversy surrounding the Four Color Theorem which states that every map can be colored using only four different colors. The remarkable theorem is the first that had to be proved using computer-assistance.
kKNd TIL that Sky ran the 1993 movie “Groundhog Day” 13 times consecutively for 24 hours on February 2nd to celebrate the annual Pennsylvania Groundhog Day holiday.
d8AkQ TIL that the theme songs to DuckTales, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, and Darkwing Duck, all have the same lead singer, Jeff Pescetto
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Me8Wm TIL in 1959 a group of men transported a piece of iceberg from Norway to west Africa in a truck.