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TIL Snow is actually translucent. However, because of how those clear crystals reflect light, snow appears white to the human eye.

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enXk TIL that in case of emergency, NASA evacuates the launchpad towers…via zip lines.
M7Xw7 TIL about Lauri Törni, who served in the Finnish Army, Waffen SS, and US Army. He is the only member of the Waffen-SS buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
69dl7 TIL Disney's "The Three Caballeros" was part of an American propaganda program in the 1940s to foster better relations between the US and Latin America, under FDR's "Good Neighbor Policy".
R5d1w TIL the 10th richest school in the United States is the Kamehameha High Schools in Hawaii, with an endowment of $14.7b, it beats out 11th place, Columbia University, by more than a billion dollars.
b9jm7 TIL that the Tennessee state constitution bans people who participated in duels from holding public office