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TIL Our sun isn't yellow, orange, or red. It's white.

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WkxwX TIL red and yellow cards in FIFA were introduced after a referee was stopped at a traffic light and thought "Yellow, take it easy; red: stop, you're off". They also helped to address the communication issues due to the various languages involved.
9Y4Ap TIL Costco’s hot dogs started out as a single hot dog cart vendor in front of their San Diego warehouse, using Hebrew National dogs.
mxeZR TIL that Dwight from The Office nearly got a spinoff called "The Farm". It would have focused on expert beet-farmer Dwight, his brother Jeb, and his sister Fannie take over the land that his aunt left behind. However, people did not receive this idea well, saying that it was too late for a spinoff.
valr TIL that America has a set of giant stone slabs, etched with “rules” for post-apocalyptic humanity in many different languages. It can be used to chart the sun and stars, and warns against “petty laws and useless officials”. No one knows who funded creation of the monument.
Egnew TIL that when Unsolved Mysteries aired a segment on missing child Nyleen Marshall, they were contacted by a man who thought he might have gone to school with Nyleen. This turned out not to be Nyleen, but a different missing child, Monica Bonilla, who had been abducted by her noncustodial parent.