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TIL that Rainbow Trout and Ocean Trout are the same species but just caught/raised in freshwater and saltwater respectively.

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X0QRX TIL of Albert Gunter, a bus driver during the Great Smog of London 1952. Not realising Tower Bridge was raising, he made a spit second decision to jump the 6ft gap in his 12,000kg double decker bus at 12mph. He was awarded £5 (£245 current value) and a day off for his bravery.
mxPey TIL about Han purple and Han blue. They are synthetic barium copper silicate pigments developed in China and used in ancient and imperial China from the Western Zhou period (1045–771 BC) until the end of the Han dynasty (circa 220 AD).
xVLl0 TIL Japan's high schools often have strict standards of conformity regarding hair color. Half of Tokyo's schools require students whose hair is not naturally black to provide baby pictures as proof; in 2017 a Japanese student sued her school after being forced to darken her hair with dye.
DQo0J TIL Alan Cumming is Scottish
EGMX TIL that there are still unexplored passageways in the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.