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TIL - An alloy of Gold, Silver, and Copper can look white, yellow, red, or even greenish yellow

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MKK7 TIL in Cherrapunji, India locals have built bridges with living tree roots for hundreds of years. They direct the roots of the native ficus to grow in a certain direction, using bamboo as support. Some of the bridges are more than 30m long and can support the weight of 50 people.
j6BPM TIL that in the early 2000s, anime dubbing studio Funimation signed a deal with Canadian studio Nelvana to distribute Canadian cartoons to expand into non-anime programming.
77lP TIL after the US Airways Flight 1549 ditching on the Hudson (aka “Miracle on the Hudson”), officials captured and gassed 1,235 Canadian geese and destroyed 1,739 goose eggs across New York City.
X07B6 TIL A French mail carrier named Ferdinand Cheval spent 33 years building a castle (“Le Palais idéal”) out of stones he found on his mail routes.
e09BL TIL that Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was the first woman to get a Ph.D in computer science.