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TIL space smells like “seared steak” or “hot metal” to astronauts returning from spacewalks

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eG64 TIL that the German word for birth control pills is antibabypille.
j667p TIL about Deafula (1975), the first ever film performed entirely in American Sign Language. It was released with no audio track in the original release, but later releases include a dub for hearing audiences.
jNvdX TIL the summit of Mount St Helens, when it erupted in 1980, was actually private property owned by the Burlington Northern railroad. Subsequently, they donated the 650 acres of land (now a vast crater) to the US Forest Service.
GA6WN TIL that oranges actually (mostly) stay green in tropical countries, because the green chlorophyll in the skin only decomposes if the temperatures gets colder as they ripen (leaving only the orange pigment visible)
7mOX TIL some humans can be tetrachromats, which gives them the ability to see more colours than a normal human, like Concetta Antico, an Australian artist who can see 100 times more colors than a regular human.