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TIL Taj Mahal turns pink at the dawn, white in noon and yellow in the dusk.

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Y7mLd TIL in 1938, Chiang Kai-Shek caused the deadliest manmade flood in history when he intentionally broke the Yellow River dam. While he did succeed in his goal of slowing down the Japanese advance, it ended up killing 400,000-893,303 people in the process.
nJvd TIL: Humans have odor receptors in the lung.
b9JVj TIL that hours before Lincoln’s assassination, he dreamt that he walked into the East Room of the WH to find a covered corpse guarded by soldiers and surrounded by a crowd of mourners. Lincoln asked one of the soldiers who had died, the soldier replied, “The president. He was killed by an assassin.
ZKkR TIL David Sarnoff, founder of RCA, fought so hard to prevent FM Radio from succeeding that the inventor of FM Radio, Edwin Howard Armstrong, commit suicide because of emotional and financial distress…brought on by RCA lawsuits.
v1lvL TIL Siamese cats have temperature sensitive fur, the cooler the part of the cat’s body, the darker the fur