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TIL that there is evidence that humans as recently as the Greeks could not see the color blue and described “blue” things like the ocean as “wine-dark” as written in the Odyssey.

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ep5Qk TIL about Operation Sea-Spray, a secret biological warfare experiment in which the U.S. Navy released two types of bacteria over the San Francisco Bay area in September 1950. The government did not disclose the experiment's existence until 1977.
5YKgQ TIL that there is a town, in Kosovo, called Metrovica, which shows the ethnical division and tensions between Serbs and Albanians. The river divides two sides, one where Serbians live, and the other inhabited by Albanians. The bridge that connects both sides is blocked.
4k1LJ TIL the Ancient Greek ruler of Miletus, Histiaeus sent a message by shaving the head of his most trusted servant, "marking" the message on his scalp, then sending him once his hair had regrown, with the instruction, "When thou art come to Miletus, bid Aristagoras shave thy head, and look thereon."
gMrNy TIL that the traffic on the Arc de Triomphe roundabout in Paris is so chaotic, insurance companies will always split the liability of an accident 50/50.
5Ybyn TIL that to film real sharks for 'Jaws', but have the normal sized Great Whites match the oversized model, they used smaller boats, smaller cage and short actor underwater.