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TIL that most planes are painted white to save fuel and reflect sunlight keeping the plane cooler and reducing the need for air conditioning

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0wgoR TIL the longest-running experiment is the pitch drop experiment. A funnel holding a sample of tar pitch sealed in a glass jar shows how some substances that appear solid are actually liquid. It takes 10 years for a single drop to form. The best known version of the experiment was started in 1927.
1aYdr TIL that Johnny Leech and his family, gardeners and descendants of the African diaspora, lived in former servant quarters in South Carolina at Magnolia Plantation up until 1999.
0wxYR TIL in 1973, two babies [one from an identical twins & one from single birth] were accidentally switched at birth in Gran Canaria, Spain. The mistake was discovered 28 years later. A friend of one of the twins was working in a shopping center in Las Palmas, the other identical twin came in to buy.
R5NPw TIL The creator of Dippin' Dots was originally researching a more efficient way to feed cows and farm animals with frozen pellets when he realized the cryogenic application for ice cream.
X0emj TIL that deafblind people can use the lormen alphabet to communicate