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TIL Blue is the world’s most popular colour

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M7PGb TIL that when Louis XVI was executed in 1793 during the French Revolution, his severed head was paraded around for the crowd and was met with exclamations of "Vive la Republique!"
jNy4p TIL In the era of keyboard ubiquity, typing has fallen out of the curriculum and no longer taught at schools. Nor has anyone invented a rival to the home keys method
W7jOA TIL In Canada, all of Yukon, most of Saskatchewan, and parts of Nunavut, Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec do not observe DST.
5YDAn TIL that Samuel Colt financed his invention and development of the revolver handgun by performing laughing gas demonstrations across the United States and Canada.
ZpAA4 TIL The Woodworth Personal Data Sheet is cited as the first personality test. Developed during the First World War the test was first published in 1919. The test consists of 116 yes/no questions with some modern personality test questions still tracing back to the first ever test.