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TIL that Ancient Greek & Roman statues weren’t originally white but were once painted in vivid, bright colours

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mxdBx TIL that red pandas are more closely related to seals and walruses than to actual pandas.
Oo01L TIL of Olivia Hooker, a survivor of the Tulsa race massacre who became the first African-American woman to enter the U.S. Coast Guard in 1945.
PYppL TIL that everything alive today (humans, animals, plants, insects, bacteria) shares 355 genes with a microbe that lived 4 billion years ago. We are all related to this microbe.
xdv1 TIL in 1997 a killer whale held a great white shark upside down for 15 minutes, causing it to suffocate, after which it ate only its liver.
ne8mb TIL the orchid mantis (Hymenopus coronatus) is a beautiful white, pinkish-white, or brownish-white species of praying mantis with lobes on its legs that look like flower petals which the mantis uses to its advantage when capturing its prey. It can change color depending on environmental conditions.