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TIL, the color, magenta, is a fabrication of human psychology.
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TIL after the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, a team of dredges had to work day and night to clear debris from the Columbia River. When they were finished, they’d collected enough material to fill a football field nearly seven miles high.
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TIL Plato’s real name was Aristocles, ‘Plato’ was a nickname (roughly 'the broad’) derived from the width of his shoulders.
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TIL outraged that President Mugabe was going to Brussels to conclude an aid and trade deal & no one was challenging him over his human rights abuses, Peter Tatchell attempted a citizen's arrest on him. Tatchell was badly beaten by bodyguards, but it helped make Mugabe an international pariah.
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TIL You Could Download Video Games From the Radio in the 1980s
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TIL at the height of the Cold War the titanium used in building the legendary SR-71 Blackbird was sourced by the CIA (via dummy companies) from the completely oblivious Soviet Union.