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TIL: The orange-yellow color of school buses is unchanged since 1939 and was chosen over bright yellow for its visibility in low light

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xxQb TIL George Washington’s mother was alive to see George Washington win the revolutionary war and see him become the nation’s first president. She was consistently dissatisfied with her son and even petitioned Virginia for a pension because of claimed neglect.She was also rumored to be a loyalist.
R7x06 TIL guitarist Brian Setzer bought the entire inventory of guitar amp tubes from a company that was going out of business in the 80s, which gives him a unique guitar tone that is impossible to exactly replicate.
KgWE TIL in ancient Rome, the architectural feature called a “vomitorium” was the entranceway through which crowds entered and exited a stadium. The Latin word vomitorium derives from the verb vomitum which means “to spew forth”.
R7AJ1 TIL of Porajmos, Nazi Germany’s and its WWII allies’ effort to commit ethnic cleansing and eventually genocide against Europe’s Romani people. Later research cited by Ian Hancock estimated the death toll to be at about 1.5 million out of an estimated 2 million Roma.
6XQw TIL that while Google is starting to roll their Fiber Optic Network out across KC, Chattanooga, TN has had it’s Fiber Optic Network in place for a few years now. Because of the Fiber network, the traffic lights will soon be able to respond in real time to changing traffic patterns.