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TIL that it’s a myth that the Golden Gate Bridge is painted from end-to-end each year or several years. The Bridge undergoes only ongoing touch up painting, and not complete repainting the moment it’s done.

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WroA TIL that Kinji Fukasaku, the director of ‘Battle Royale,’ had worked in a weapons factory that was frequently bombed during WWII. “We would try to get behind each other or beneath dead bodies to avoid the bombs… it made me understand about the limits of friendship.”
gjL8 TIL despite the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine still gets 47% of its electricity from nuclear energy, compared to United States’ 19%.
graW4 TIL one estimate claims that Earth may have 1 trillion species. However, only 1.75–1.8 million have been named and 1.8 million documented in a central database. These currently living species represent less than one per cent of all species that have ever lived on Earth.
o0ko TIL that Marvel had a female Villan Named Asbestos Lady, who set fires and wore clothes covered in it to proctect her, and later got cancer due to her exposure.
Aw9B TIL Our genes show that we all share a male ancestor that is called Y-Chromosomal Adam. He lived approximately 208,300 years ago.