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TIL Women are physiologically better at distinguishing color, while men better distinguish moving objects.

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yVGRp TIL: Project Orion was a project by DARPA and NASA to use nukes to propel spacecraft supported by Von Braun , the biggest design was the "Super" Orion which hoods 1080 nukes, weigh 8 million tons, and was described as an interstellar ark. However, problems included nuclear fallout on Earth.
ANDn7 TIL that ancient civilizations developed iron tools well before the Iron Age by finding meteorites made of iron and nickel that didn’t require smelting
LkNdd TIL someone has looked for and found a single needle hidden in a haystack. Done by hand, it took Sven Sachsalber 18 hours to complete this task at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
8adja TIL that the Simpsons character Ned Flanders is named after Flanders Street in Portland Oregon, where the show's creator, Matt Groening grew up.
PY8yn TIL the police did not provide a suspect with a lawyer, because they thought "give me a lawyer, dawg" meant he wanted a "lawyer dog".