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TIL there is a breed of horse (called Akhal-Teke or ‘golden horse’) with proteins in their coat that appear metallic iridescent when light falls on them.

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XE6kD TIL There is a sequel to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", called "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator". It features space travel, Cold War politics, aliens, and Charlie's grandparents abusing drugs.
4JaX TIL More than 60 percent of people in the US who die from guns die by suicide
6ENO7 TIL, the Lead-crime hypothesis explains that the crime wave from 1970-1995 was mainly due to two generations being exposed to lead
e0oEL TIL Steve Jobs shared details of the original Macintosh with Bill Gates to excite him about the future of their partnership. Bill Gates and the Microsoft team started referring to the Macintosh as project "Sand", a reverse engineered acronym for "Steve's amazing new device."
6ELrX TIL The cashew "apple" is a light reddish to yellow fruit, whose pulp can be processed into a sweet, astringent fruit drink or distilled into liquor. The cashew “nut” is the seed of the fruit. The shell of the cashew seed is used for lubricants, waterproofing, paints and arms production.