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TIL stripper Angela Renee White changed her name after meeting a client who called himself Black China because of his appearance: black with eyes like a Chinese. She changed the spelling to Blac Chyna

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epDa5 TIL Many plastic items in the grocery store have a set of three arrows forming a triangle with a number in the middle—but it’s not a recycling symbol. It’s a resin stamp indicating roughly the type of plastic it is. The petrochemical industry created it to make consumers think the item is recyclable
VBYyB TIL: It's estimated that the Kool-Aid Man is 6 feet tall with glass 3.6 inches thick. Without liquid, he'd weigh 5,800 lbs. But when filled with 607.6 gallons of liquid, he weighs in at 11,000 lbs which is roughly the same weight as an elephant. OH YEAHHHH!
PYbkO TIL that blind people may detect and respond to light if it is a kind of skyblue light at 481nm. "There is more to the eye than rods and cones — the discovery of a third photoreceptor is rewriting the visual rulebook."
4JDg TIL upon discovering an abandoned printing press in Belgium during the first world war, British soldiers decided to start publishing their own satirical newspaper from the trenches.
ZpY1o TIL of Lon Horiuchi - the FBI officer who fatally shot Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge & was also accused of firing into the burning building during the siege of Waco