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TIL Baby’s can only see high contrast colors when they are born. When parent’s paint the baby’s room pastels they can’t see it.

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5YjYP TIL Diogo Alves committed the famous “Aqueduct Murders” 1836-1840 and was the penultimate person to be hanged in Portugal. Scientists wanted to study the brain of a serial killer and so preserved his head in a glass vessel. It is still viewed today in the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Medicine.
epDNn TIL that one of the closest times mankind has been to nuclear war was in the 1950s when, among other things, US intelligence received reports of an identified flying object over Turkey- which was later identified as a wedge of swans
N7rp8 TIL that a horse, Beau, saved his stablemate, Beatrice, from being put down. The shire horse had collapsed and the owners, unable to lift her, set a deadline for when she'd have to be put down. With 20 mins left, Beau went to Beatrice, bit the back of her neck and helped her stand up. She recovered.
ANQ7o TIL that since 2004, Parque EcoAlberto, an outdoor adventure park in the Mexican state of Hidalgo, has offered a 3 hour nighttime experience that puts visitors through a fake crossing of the US-Mexico border with sirens, dogs, chases, drug smugglers and the fake border patrol yelling threats.
0dQ5L TIL because he thought he would be assassinated for testifying against his former gang, a former gang member was smuggled into the courthouse in a hollowed out vending machine.