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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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dnX7 TIL that in 2009, Coolio attempted to stage dive. Nobody caught him, he was beaten up and had his shoes stolen.
J1Bpj TIL that despite the city's reputation of being "The Most Miserable City in America", as of 2022, Gary, Indiana is no longer even in the Top 10 of most dangerous cities in Indiana (according to FBI crime report statistics)
AN7g TIL that the last place to rejoin the Union after the American Civil War was a small town in upstate New York. In 1861, the town voted 80-45 to secede, but was not included in Reconstruction and didn’t vote to rejoin the Union until 1946.
0d045 TIL Wishing to "put a tip of gold on a golden life", philosopher Peregrinus Proteus, promised to set himself on fire in public, and he delivered: on the final night of the 165AD Olympics, he lit his own funeral pyre near Olympia and jumped in after delivering his own eulogy to a crowd of spectators
neN69 TIL in the scene where Jack Nicholson smashes down the door with an axe in ‘The Shining,’ the prop team used a weakened one so it would be easier to break. But Nicholson had previously been volunteer fire marshal and broke through the door so easily the prop team was forced to make a stronger door.