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TIL the chemical that turns your urine blue when you urinate in pools does not exist

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Ombe TIL Walter Mondale is the only person to have lost a state wide election in every state.
R5906 TIL: Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." it is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion;
pLe TIL that since 1993, more than 700 girls and women have been raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the Northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, which has the highest female murder rate per capita of any city in Mexico or the US. It’s being called “femicide”.
jdnQ TIL that pencils are yellow because, in the 1890’s, the world’s best pencil graphite came from China. In China, the color yellow is associated with royalty, so American pencil manufacturers started painting their pencils yellow to indicate they contained high-quality Chinese graphite.
l7RMN TIL Space Shuttle Columbia and Enterprise were initially fitted with ejection seats borrowed from the SR71