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Why are barns in the United States often red?
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Barns are red because of exploding stars - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/barns-are-painted-red-because-of-the-physics-of-dying-stars-58185724/
Great article. Similar to "NASA's booster size is the result of the size of a horse's ass": https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/4-feet-85-inches-space-shuttle-horses-ass-william-batch-batchelder
I love these types of articles. I feel like there should be a community for these, but I don't know what it'd be called
/strangeconnections ?
Holy shit. Just what I needed on my trip.