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TIL the color orange is named after the fruit. Before that in Europe the color was referred to as red-yelllow

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Wkge9 TIL that people in the final stages of hypothermia end up trying to enter small, enclosed spaces. This is called terminal burrowing, and is believed by researchers to be an autonomous process, controlled by the brain stem.
kJx14 TIL Leo McCarey, the director of Duck Soup (1933), said in an interview with Cahiers du cinema in 1967: "The most surprising thing about this film was that I succeeded in not going crazy, because I really did not want to work with them: they were completely mad."
ndwP TIL that after WW2 the VA performed lobotomies on over 2,000 veterans as treatment for what we now recognize as signs of PTSD.
VMvA8 TIL the root of the word "ruthless" the the verb "to rue" meaning “to feel sorrow or regret”
Z88JB TIL there's a penny on Mars