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TIL that humans have gone to space every year since 1961
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TIL that the blue jay isn’t blue because of pigmentation, but because the structure of the feather interferes with light. Thus, if a feather is crushed, it no longer appears blue.
9MYr
TIL outing CIA agents wasn’t made illegal until 1982 after a former agent published several bestsellers which named thousands of CIA personnel
rRKNx
TIL Rick Moranis retired from acting after his wife died of liver cancer so he could raise his children
ep4DL
TIL about early ‘competitive eater’ and local Kent celebrity Nicholas Wood, whose stunts were reported in 1630 to include eating a whole sheep raw in one sitting (including the wool, horns, and bones), 7 dozen rabbits in one meal, and 400 pigeons in another
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TIL that delta brainwaves are the most dominant frequency in babies, causing a sleep-like state where the mind isn’t usually too active and described as being on autopilot.