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TIL the U.S. federal government has an official color palette

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GAAj5 TIL that an estimated 13-19% of all Sequoias more than 4ft in diameter were destroyed in wildfires since the 2020 fire season
xVe11 TIL a Tennessee magistrate judge once ordered a woman to change her son's name from "Messiah" because "The word Messiah is a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ."
QJvDE TIL The Smother Brother's Comedy Hour featured The Who in 1967. The performance ended with The Who destroying their instruments, aided by pyrotechnics. Keith Moon accidentally received 3x the normal explosives. The explosion sent cymbal shrapnel cut into Moon's arm and singed Townshend's hair.
7rNXX TIL Cpl Tony Stein earned the medal of honor by creating a hybrid Machine gun which quickly ran out of ammo. Kicking his shoes off, he ran back down to the beach eight times to get fresh ammunition. Each trip back, he carried a wounded Marine on his back
eDR5 TIL that after WWII the CIA recruited Nazi war criminals, who had worked on mind control/brainwashing techniques in Germany, to assist them with their own mind control experiments on unwitting US citizens.