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TIL that the controversial blue and white dress illusion was replicated by neuroscientists with socks and Crocs

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JYmQQ Today I learned about Ocean Picture Stone, a rare quartz deposit in British Columbia that when cut/polished right looks like realistic beach scenery
nW6WG TIL that following the King of the Hill season two cliffhanger ending, rumors begin spreading through various FOX commercials and promotional spots that the Hills would be moving to Hollywood. TV Guide ads and the like even touted Propane Boom (the season two finale) as the "last episode in Texas!"
nXV9 TIL Mahatma Gandhi had deep disdain for black people, once describing them as ‘only one degree removed from the animal,’ and 'whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness".’
XapP TIL we typically do not start to think of foods as “too sweet” until our bone growth stops. Younger children have virtually no limit to the amount of sugar they find palatable.
9wMOD TIL none of Abraham Lincoln's great-grandchildren had any children. His descendants died out in the 1970s-80s.