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TIL that generations of incest turned members of the Fugate family blue. They lived in eastern Kentucky’s Troublesome Creekand their peculiar skin color was caused by a metabolic condition affecting hemoglobin.

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O7WR TIL that Rob Thomas initially recorded the song “Smooth” as a demo for Santana, who, after hearing it, decided that Thomas should record the final version. The song went on to be ranked second most successful song of all time by Billboard in 2013.
QJ5k6 TIL Coca-Cola created a clear version of their soda for the Soviet Union in the 1940s called "White Coke"
Jejm TIL: In 1924 the KKK planned to hold a major rally in South Bend to send a message to Notre Dame students. “Instead, the only message delivered that morning came from Notre Dame’s students, who pummeled the Klansmen as they disembarked from their train.”
vv5B TIL in an experiment every one of 54 undergraduates in wine making and tasting thought they were tasting a red wine while it was actually a dyed white wine. Furthermore when comparing identical wine of different prices experts raved about the expensive wine while panning the cheap wine
yGGp TIL the explosion from the first nuclear weapon test at Trinity was so bright that Georgia Green, a blind woman almost 50 miles away, asked her brother “What’s that light?”