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TIL That it is a taboo to wear green hats in China because it signals you as a cuckold

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47aJ TIL of a Malawian teenager who taught himself how to build a windmill out of junk and bring power to his village. He then went on to build a second, larger windmill to power irrigation pumps. He did this all from books he read in the library.
4XlOg TIL The bones of around 10 bodies; six of them children were found in the basement of the house Benjamin Franklin lived in London's Craven Street for nearly two decades, while he was an ambassador for the American colonies.
9YJY6 TIL in 1994, country music singer Alan Jackson was asked to use a pre-recorded version of his song 'Gone Country' when performing live at the award show. He protested by having his drummer perform with no drum sticks in his hand the whole performance
EgPed TIL that the reason crystals and rocks feel cold to the touch is that they have "high thermal inertia". In other words, a rock that sits on a table in a 24°C room will want to take in heat from our 36.8°C bodies,.. and that feels cold. Once it has gained that 12.8°C it does not feel cold any more.
OkM6 TIL activist Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the KKK and passed their secret handshakes/codes to the writers of “The Adventures of Superman.” The radio show then ridiculed these practices for 16 episodes and caused Klan recruitment to grind to a halt virtually overnight.