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TIL (According to Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's 1969 study Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution) Names for brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray will not emerge in a language until the language has made a distinction between green and blue.

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nWl4o TIL that the value of all the world’s real estate is about $327 trillion, which is almost four times more than global GDP.
W14d TIL that horseshoe crab blood is worth $15,000/L, due to its ability to detect bacteria
8ebM8 TIL Barnes & Noble is flourishing and opening new locations.
YpNkx TIL Vitali Kaloyev, a Russian Architect who lost his family when the airliner they were flying in collided mid air with a cargo plane. He stalked and later murdered an air traffic controller he blamed for the incident.
6D98 TIL that NFL player Antonio Cromartie has 10 children from 8 different women and despite getting a vasectomy is expecting twins with his wife. Several of the other women keep in touch and most of the moms are on board for a reality show about the situation.