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TIL that there are women out there called “tetrachromats” who, through mutation, can see millions of more colors than normal people.

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Vd1D Sean Bean is terrified of flying. So during Lord of the Rings when the cast had to fly to remote shoot locations by helicopter, like the snowy mountains, he travelled part of the way via ski-lift and then spend two hours walking the remainder of the journey, in full Boromir costume.
VMPnB TIL that the 'Velociraptors' in the Jurassic Park franchise are based of the dinosaur Deinonychus, but Michael Crichton used the name of a different dinosaur species because it sounded cooler.
Y7Jg7 TIL the Trabant became the most common car in East Germany and the average worker there had to wait between 10 to 13 years to acquire one. In the 1980s, it was manufactured with no tachometer, no external fuel door, and no fuel gauge and drivers had to use a dipstick to measure the remaining fuel.
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epDPJ TIL that some ants vomit on each other to say hello.