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TIL some people’s eye color can change based on their mood

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gr7Py TIL that Carl Sagan has an archive in the Library of Congress, endowed by the creator of Family Guy. Seth MacFarlane put up an undisclosed sum to help the Library of Congress buy more than a thousand boxes of material kept by the late scientist and his wife and collaborator, Ann Druyan.
XpO8 TIL: Israel’s history of selling USA’s secrets to China goes back to the 1980’s. China acquired advanced military tech & weapons from Israel then re-exported to Pakistan, Iran, etc. Also, Israeli military companies opened offices in China for sales. CIA said profit was “several billion dollars.”
wLoVY TIL Oscar the Grouch was originally orange, and was meant to be magenta
KrL4 TIL even Sylvester Stallone believes “Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot!” was one of his worst movies ever, calling it “maybe one of the worst films in the entire solar system, including alien productions we’ve never seen”
grwdy TIL the West Australian Christmas Tree (Nuytsia floribunda) is a parasitic tree that sends out roots up to 150m (492ft) to attach themselves to any nearby trees and plants to draw water and nutrients from them. Almost all species are susceptible to attack.