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TIL that in the 1950s and 60s, people could buy plastic screens to colorize their black & white TVs

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VMeN4 TIL There are no hummingbirds in Hawaii and never will be thanks to pineapples
R55EQ TIL that during the Great Depression a businessman turned a poor Florida town into the richest US city per capita by convincing the populace to YOLO into Coca Cola stock, the value of which proceeded to appreciate vastly
7LQZ TIL no one knows what Algeria’s intelligence chief Mohamed Mediène, reportedly the most powerful man in the country, looks like - no clear public photo of him exists
agL0 TIL Make-up is meant to simulate what a woman’s face looks like mid-orgasm. Reddish or dark pink lipstick mimics the way lips will engorge with blood. Blush mimics flushed skin. Eyeliner and darker eyeshadow will make the eyes appear half closed, hence the term “bedroom eyes”.
NXGLe TIL about German Cardinal Clemens August Graf Von Galen, who is both highly praised for having led efforts to fight the Aktion T4 murder of the disabled, while strongly criticised for not doing the same when it came to the Jews.