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TIL there is still no scientific consensus for why "the dress" appears as either white-and-gold or black-and-blue

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pY9ge TIL that Daniel ‘Rudy’ Ruettiger, the football player who is the basis of the classic sports film “Rudy”, ran a pump and dump scheme and was charged with stock fraud charges and settled for $4.5M.
KYwJ6 Til a girl who survived Asiana plane crash was killed by a SFO firetruck that been dispatched to rescue survivors and extinguish flames from the burning Boeing 777.
DQwev TIL some clams can live for more than 500 years (Ming, a Quahog clam lived to 507)
69M0l TIL that from 1867 to 1974, various cities in the United States had laws prohibiting people deemed "unsightly" from being seen in public, retroactively being named "ugly laws".
LkDdv TIL: Kama3 was a pig who learned to surf the waves in Hawaii. He was killed in his sleep by hunters who trespassed into his owner's property.