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TIL TV remotes are equipped with dedicated color buttons—commonly red, green, yellow, and blue because of Teletext

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ADvZl TIL that 95 year old Dick Van Dyke uses LightWave 3D and has been doing computer animation since owning a Commodore Amiga in 1991.
v14Gx TIL Jeff Bezos is building a 10,000 Year Clock inside a remote mountain in West Texas an icon for long-term thinking. It ticks once a year, the century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium, and will keep time for the next 10,000 years.
gr0ZL TIL there are multiple philosophical razors beyond Occam’s Razor, such as Hanlon’s Razor, which suggests “never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity,” and Hitchens’ Razor, which claims “what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”
ROy9 TIL The solvents used to clean up the Oil spill from the wrecked tanker Torrey Canyon are thought to have damaged the environment even more badly than the oil spill itself.
WVXY TIL that the U.S. Marshals still have the common law-based power to enlist any willing civilians as deputies. Also known in the Old West as forming a posse.