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TIL There’s a shade of blue that doesn’t reproduce on a black and white copy machine or grayscale scan. It’s used extensively in the graphic design industry.
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TIL In 1948 the United States Air-force tested the XF-85 Goblin, a jet fighter designed to be deployed and retrieved from a bomber’s bomb-bay. The bomber could carry a maximum of 4 XF-85s, turning it into a “Flying Aircraft Carrier”.
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TIL that Bennett Foddy, the man who developed the popular video games QWOP and Getting Over It, was the original bassist for the well known synth-pop band Cut Copy, before conducting postdoctoral research in moral philosophy at both Princeton University and Oxford University
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TIL there is a live HD feed from a camera mounted on the International Space Station from which you can watch our Earth. Not only that, but you can easily set said feed as your screen saver.
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TIL that a genetic disease might have been behind Henry VIII’s low number of surviving children and his crazed behavior in his middle and later years.