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TIL Morgan Freeman is against Black History Month

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nWdYG TIL Neil Harbisson, the world's first ever recognized "Cyborg", uses a cybernetic implant to hear colors through learned perfect pitch. His device has different constraints than our eyes and allows him to "hear" colors that are outside the visible spectrum, like infrared and ultraviolet!
Wkgdd TIL that, once the Civil War began, Confederate general Robert E. Lee's plantation outside Washington DC was repurposed by the Lincoln administration to house a camp for escaped slaves. It contained a school, hospital, and cemetery, and it is now the site of Arlington National Cemetery.
gZ4b TIL J.R.R. Tolkien asked his wife to marry him by mail after no communication with her for 5 years, meanwhile she was already engaged to another man.
NXB7J TIL in 2019, the UK granted asylum to a 14-year-old boy and admitted him to a local high school. He was asking 14yo girls out and changing with 14yo boys in PE. It later turned out he was actually an adult who was wanted for murder in Serbia.
gvy TIL “sex boxes” exist in Zurich - places where men can park their cars to have sex with prostitutes without disturbing the neighborhood