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TIL Amazon women is not women of the Amazon (Brazil) but rather mythical tribes in Greek Mythology

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gM408 TIL that purple is a "non-spectral color", which means that it exists only in our minds: there is no wavelength of light that corresponds to it. Our brain perceives purple when it sees a mixture of strong red and strong blue light, without any green.
AD71g TIL Prostitutes in the Victorian era would wear pubic hair wigs called merkins so that their clients wouldn't think they had syphilis, which causes pubic balding
ZpgQ TIL that in Super Mario RPG, there’s an item found under Peach’s bed called called Toadstool’s ???, which she scolds you for finding. In Japan, it’s called XXX and is implied to be a sex toy
OGoKR TIL Mazda had to issue at least two recalls because spiders could cause their vehicles to catch on fire.
nPQ7 TIL The son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who was once the brand ambassador, was dismissed from company board meetings after he spoke out against Playboy’s current leadership and its non-nude magazine restructuring