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TIL that the color orange was named after the orange fruit. Up until the 1500’s, the color was referred to as “saffron” or simply “yellow-red.”

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PYVJn TIL that Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev is a Grammy Award winner
W7dEo TIL Supermarket Apples can be a year old (and its okay)
VdgG TIL Nikola Tesla still has inventions classified by the US government.
8aWXb A boeing 747-400 type airplane with 6 million parts, 71 meters long, 64 meters wingspan and 270 kilometers of cable, weighs approximately 185,000 kilograms, of which approximately 75,000 kilograms is aluminum.
XEYLX TIL outside the academic space Dmitry Mendeleev (creator of Periodic table of elements) was a man of unusual interests and the widest professional knowledge. It’s hard to count them all. He was a chemist, physicist, economist, meteorologist, technologist, geologist, meteorologist, pedagogue, aviator