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TIL Snow isn’t actually white, but rather translucent. It’s the light reflecting off it that makes it appear white with the many sides of the snowflake scattering light in many directions, diffusing the entire colour spectrum. Snow can also appear in a wide variety of spectacular hues.

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7rl6Z TIL that a man biked from Paris through France, Spain and Morocco, eating only out-of-date food that would have been thrown away, to draw attention to the epidemic of food wastage. He continued his campaign by crossing the Atlantic on a pedal boat, getting all of his calories from expired food.
gRrL TIL that Bin Laden’s Family was evacuated by the FBI shortly after 9/11 when they received a message from the Saudi ruler saying there were “bin Laden children all over America…Take measures to protect the innocents”
wGNY TIL that in 1984 the Key West Police Department was declared a criminal enterprise.
g7gW TIL that a handful of American revolutionary veterans survived long enough to have daguerreotypes taken of them
LkrpQ TIL Death by GPS refers to the death of people attributable, in part, to following GPS directions or GPS maps