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TIL about structural colouration. ‘Structural coloration in animals, and a few plants, is the production of colour by microscopically structured surfaces fine enough to interfere with visible light instead of pigments…’

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l76kr TIL green bell peppers were just red/yellow/orange peppers but in their unripe form
6pG7 TIL that in the 60s the US struck a deal with the UK to buy an unpopulated Indian ocean island for a military base. The UK didn’t have an unpopulated island, so it forcibly expelled the inhabitants of the British Indian Ocean Territory until it WAS uninhabited.
R5xoa TIL Arizona State University is the only university in the world to offer a master of science degree in biomimicry (the study of design modeled on nature).
r0mM TIL: The name ‘orchid’ is derived from the greek word for 'testicle’
4xYg TIL “Inside Out” was going to have another imaginary character named “Corner Sun,” who was literally a quarter of Sun as kids would draw in the corner of their drawings