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TIL that there is music hidden inside the windows folder

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EgGAW TIL that the monarch of the country of Cambodia doesn't inherit the throne, Instead, they are elected via a special council called the Royal Council of the Throne.
LQlkQ TIL famous baseball player Arthur Irwin committed suicide by jumping off a ship in 1921. When he died, two widows emerged. He had been living a double life and was married two different women in different cities.
VMpx4 TIL That bugs and some other animals have green blood because they use copper to bind oxygen instead of iron
1KXD TIL Ants can get caught in a circular pheromone trail, so that the whole colony pinwheels forever until they die.
OoGOX The sky appears blue for a combination of two reasons. Before white light reaches the Earth's surface, the light waves collide with and bounce off of the nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the atmosphere. Different frequencies of light (in other words different colours) are scattered differently. Higher frequencies (blue and purple) are more easily scattered and thus bounce around in all different directions more than lower frequencies (red or orange) do. The scattering of high frequencies alone would cause the sky to appear blue and purple, but our eyes work better at frequencies near the middle of the spectrum (yellow and green). Since the colour blue is closer to yellow or green than purple is, the sky we see appears blue.