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TIL about Pantone 448 C, the world's 'ugliest color'. It is sometimes used for cigarette packaging, after market researchers determined that it was the least attractive colour.

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NXpoe Today I learned, Friday the 13th is a reference to the massacre of the Knights Templar in 1307
xJa1 TIL that marine officials in Honduras trained sharks to hunt Lionfish, which were invading the population.
xl5D TIL in 1989, the forward cargo door of a 747 flying from Honolulu to Auckland blew off, causing decompression of the cabin and ejecting 9 passengers from the plane to their deaths over 22,000ft below. 2 flight attendants narrowly avoided being sucked out of the plane.
Oo6AL TIL there are no mosquitoes in Iceland
Vm54 TIL as recently as 2010, there was a member of the United States Senate who was, at one time, a member of the KKK. He had also, as recently as 2001, used the “N” word in an interview with Fox News.