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TIL WW2 sunken ships are being "grave robbed" due to their incredibly valuable steel

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7rGGX TIL of the Blue Mustang, a 32-foot tall sculpture of a blue horse at Denver International Airport. It was designed by sculptor Luis Jiménez who was unable to complete the project after the head fell on him and severed an artery in his leg, killing him. His staff and family finished the job for him
d8YOd TIL that a 1950s and 60s Greenwich Village street poet named Big Brown had an enormous influence on Kerouac and the Beats, Bob Dylan, and proto-Hip Hop with Rudy Ray Moore (Dolemite) and The Last Poets. Dylan referred to his poems as "the best poetry I ever heard".
1jmr TIL that night vision goggles are green because the human eye can differentiate more shades of green than any other color.
YPjG TIL black printer ink is $2,701.52 a gallon and the worlds most expensive liquid is scorpion venom at $38,858,507 a gallon.
Kp84 TIL In Iceland they exchange books in the days before Christmas and spend Christmas Eve reading them and eating chocolate.