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TIL that Carrots used to be purple until the Dutch discovered a mutation in orange color. Because of their national colours, they decided to continue growing that orange carrots.

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lkjG TIL dolphin communication follows a linguistic rule that unites human languages, called Zipf’s law. The law states that the frequency of a language’s common words follow a trend — the most common word in a language appears twice as often as the second most common word.
QbEE TIL the 1981 Italian horror film ‘Nightmare’ was so controversial in the UK, the distributor received an 18 month prison sentence for refusing to edit 1 second of violence. The film had already been cut by over 3 minutes.
AoQ4 TIL that after 9/11, the Department of Justice spent $8,000 on blue drapes that hide nude statues added to the Great Hall in the 1930’s. The Spirit of Justice statue has a single breast completely exposed.
4Bwg TIL That February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon
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