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TIL in the USA uses spelled rather than spelt when it comes to the past tense of spell.

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oBVgr TIL that tint is a mixture of a color with white, which reduces darkness, shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness, tone is produced either by mixing a color with grey (or by both tinting and shading), and hue is how much red, blue and yellow it has.
o0pr TIL that astronomers and geologists have discovered evidence that Mars once experienced massive tsunamis, some of which had waves over 400-feet-tall.
R76d1 TIL that "assload" and "buttload" have different origins. "Assload" originally referred to the load a donkey could carry, while "buttload" referred to the volume a "butt", a type of large cask, could hold.
KYY8R TIL Chef Boyardee was head chef at the Plaza Hotel prior to launching his canned foods brand
vZp4 TIL sperm whales sleep vertically.