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TIL that brake and tail lights are red because this colour has the highest wavelength in the colour spectrum making it visible in longer distances, even with fog.

TIL any adult canadian can send cannabis thru canada post up to 28 grams to another canadian adult anywhere in canada

TIL Elton John is Eminem’s A.A. sponsor.

TIL Victoria's Secret was originally marketed to men to buy for their partners. Leslie Wexner bought it for $1 million and changed the marketing to women. To create the illusion of luxury the company listed its headquarters on catalogs at a fake London address, with the real one in Columbus, Ohio.

TIL about Bayard Rustin, an openly gay black man who advised Martin Luther King Jr. on the principles of nonviolence, was a major civil rights leader, and was the main organizer of the March On Washington. He has been largely forgotten (especially relative to other activists) due to his sexuality.

TIL that despite being only 100 miles from each other, Somoa and American Somoa will enter the new decade 25 hours apart. Residents can take a 30 minute flight back into 2019 and celebrate the New Year again more than a day later.

TIL of Kris Boesen, a young man who is the first fully quadriplegic person to regain use of his arms after an experimental stem cell injection surgery; he was paralyzed from the neck down after a car crash, and then had surgery which injected 10 million AST-OPC1 cells.

TIL Yuri Gagarin scared farmers by landing in a spacesuit. A woman asked, "Can it be that you have come from outer space?" Gagarin said: "As a matter of fact, I have! Don't be afraid, I am a Soviet like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!"

TIL Eddie Deezen, who played a ton of movie nerds in the 70s and 80s and who's role as Eugene in Grease is considered the archetype for the movie nerd, was turned down for a role in "Revenge of the Nerds" because he was "too geeky"

TIL that Colin Farell helped a drifter in Toronto win $2,000 from a radio station, who was offering it to anyone who could bring the actor to their studio. 4 years later, he helped the same man again, by taking him on a $2,100 shopping spree for essential clothing and giving him $830 for rent.

TIL the state of Mississippi observes Robert E Lee’s birthday as a state holiday while the rest of the country observes Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday (MLK day). They also have a state holiday for confederate memorials

TIL in 2013, there was a train crash in Australia caused by millipedes. There were so many of them on the tracks that a train pulling into a station ended up losing friction from squishing so many of them and crashed into another train.

TIL Ted Bundy returned to a crime scene the morning after he had abducted and killed a student, Georgann Hawkins, in order to retrieve some evidence. There, in the midst of a major investigation, he took her earrings and one of her shoes from an adjoining parking lot, and left, unobserved.

TIL the rate of suicide among 10 to 14-year-olds has doubled over the last 30 years.

TIL in terms of being considered "beautiful" by others, research has found facial attractiveness is a lot more important than body shape.

TIL that to watch the ball drop on New Year's Eve, revelers on Times Square are herded into pens. They have to stay in there for hours without any toilets, so many people wear adult diapers.

TIL the United States detonated 67 nuclear bombs on, in and above the Marshall Islands. They later cleaned up contaminated soil on Enewetak Atoll, only to later deposit 130 tons of soil from an irradiated Nevada testing site in the same place.

TIL that Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia's actor) was cremated and the ashes are kept in a giant Prozac pill.

TIL that Romans weaved asbestos fibers into a cloth-like material that was then sewn into tablecloths and napkins. These cloths were cleaned by throwing them into a blistering fire, from which they came out unharmed and whiter than when they went in.

TIL about Suryia, an orangutan from a sanctuary who approached and befriended a thin stray dog, Roscoe, during a walk to a lake. Roscoe stuck around and was immediately taken in by Suryia and the other orangutans almost like a beloved pet. They fed, groomed, petted, and played with him for years.

TIL that America's first space shuttle, The Enterprise, was supposed to be called The Constitution but had its name changed after a massive write-in campaign from Star Trek fans. At the dedication, Gene Roddenberry and cast members from the show were in attendance.

TIL most successful startup companies aren't started by people in their 20s. The average age of founders who started a high-growth company is 45.

TIL that in the film Candyman, Tony Todd negotiated a fee of $1000 for each time he was stung during the bee scene. He walked away with $23000.

TIL about Biosphere 2, an attempt to create a closed ecological system that could be used in space. 8 people lived in the dome for two years - only needing additional oxygen and one hospital visit. The experiment was deemed a failure, and the glass dome is now used as a research facility.

TIL of the 'Ill Week' - a kind of late medieval version of the Purge. When Elizabeth I died there was a popular belief that the laws of a kingdom were suspended between the death of a sovereign and the proclamation of the successor.

TIL Grizzly bears' muscles don't atrophy during hibernation because they produce additional amino acids that stimulate muscle cell growth.

TIL that a wedding planner in England died after eating a scalding-hot fishcake at a wedding. It burned his throat so badly that it left him unable to breathe. The cause of death was ruled as asphyxiation. The coroner said it was similar to smoke inhalation from house fires.

TIL Essentially all penicillin produced after 1943 originated with a mold sample found on a cantaloupe in Peoria, Illinois. The moldy part was cut off and cultured and the lab technicians ate the rest of the fruit.

TIL in the summer of 2011, authorities were finally able to create a DNA profile of notorious serial killer Ted Bundy and upload it to the FBI’s national database when vials of his blood, taken in 1978, were discovered previously untouched and forgotten in a Florida crime lab

TIL that when Alexander the Great’s dearest friend Hephaestion died, Alexander threw him a lavish funeral worth around £1,500,000,000. He also had a 60-metre-high pyre commissioned, with 7 layers of golden objects. Hephaestion was also worshipped as a divine hero. Shrines were erected in his memory.

TIL of Paige Hunter, a UK young woman who has prevented at least 6 suicides by tying over 40 handwritten notes of hope to a bridge infamous for suicides.

TIL: The British nuclear fuel processing plant Sellafield is so contaminated that pigeons that roosted there and pooped in someone's garden, polluted the garden so much the garden had to be dug up and treated as nuclear waste.

TIL about the spitting stone in Bremen, Germany, where people express their disgust by spitting at a stone which marks the execution spot of Gesche Gottfried who poisoned 15 people with arsenic during the early 19th century.

TIL "Accuracy" is the ability to hit a target, "Precision" is the ability to achieve the same results over and over. You can be accurate without being precise, and precise without being accurate.

TIL In 1995 a man from australia committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest with a shotgun. He then shot himself in the head with a pistol. When both failed he used the shotgun and shot his throat and jaw. Finally he walked two hundred metres & shot himself in the heart

TIL: Kelsey Grammar's daughter is the voice actor of 'Summer' in rick and morty.

TIL in 2008, a British man was found dead at his apartment- he had been decapitated by a chainsaw. He was the last tenant in a block of flats which had been cleared for redevelopment. Police said his death was not suspicious. Post-mortem tests showed he died of a "complete transection of the neck".

TIL that Purgatory in the Divine Comedy (1320) is a mountain situated on the opposite end of the world to Jerusalem, and Dante and Virgil reach it by going to the centre of the Earth (via Hell) and up the other side. This is because the Medieval world, and hence Dante, knew the Earth was a sphere.

TIL in 1999, a Las Vegas couple were unable to come to a decision on how to split up their Beanie Baby collection during their divorce settlement. A judge ordered them to dump their collection on the floor of the court and take turns picking them one-by-one.

TIL Vanna White has never repeated wearing a single dress during her entire career on “Wheel Of Fortune”. She has worn over 6500 Dresses and been on the show for almost 37 years (Since 1982)

TIL that in its early days, football was primarily played in colleges and was extremely violent due to the rugby style nature of the rules. It was so violent that in 1905 alone, there were 19 fatalities that US President Teddy Roosevelt threatened to shut down the sport unless changes were made.

TIL Ravens can solve puzzles that require a flexible planning ability previously documented only in people and great apes. They learned to pass up a small food reward in favor of a tool they used to get a much better reward and barter with bottle caps, concepts a toddler would struggle to understand

TIL suicide by Tylenol overdose dropped 43% in the UK after they changed the packaging from regular bottles to blister packs where you have to push out the pills one by one.

TIL that every sweater Mr Rogers wore on his show had been hand knitted by his mother, Nancy Rogers. She made him a new one every Christmas. She died in 1981. When they started wearing thin in the 1990s, replacements were found, but the source has been forgotten.

TIL the worst rated sitcom of all time is "My Mother the Car" about a man's mother who is reincarnated as a car and speaks to him through the radio

TIL about Carl Schurz, at first a soldier in the German revolution of '48, who busted out his friend from a prison in Berlin, fled on a boat to Edinburg, emigrated to the US, became a Union General in the Civil War, then US Senator, and later secretary of the interior. Mark Twain wrote his obituary.

TIL Thomas Jefferson described the miracles in the Bible, including Jesus coming back from the dead, as "contrary to reason". When it came to the Bible, he was only interested in the moral teachings of Jesus and nothing else.

TIL while Apple was buying rural land for a new building, one couple refused to sell their 1 acre plot of land they had originally purchased for $6,000. After rejecting every single offer, Apple just told them to name a price. They sold it for $1.7 million.

TIL in 2015 Forbes named Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in America based on a $9 billion valuation of her company. Yet within a year, following revelations of potential fraud about its claims, Forbes revised her net worth to zero dollars.

TIL dogs can breathe in and out simultaneously, allowing for uninterrupted smelling.