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TIL that blue eyes do not have blue pigmentation - they look blue for the same reason that the the sky looks blue

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gMkWb TIL of Lingchi, also known as death by a thousand cuts, which was a form of torture and execution used from roughly 900 CE until it was banned in 1905. It involved methodically slicing portions of the body over an extended period of time, eventually resulting in death.
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