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TIL the colors you see when you close your eyes are from a type of light emitted by them

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kM7 TIL that the founder of MADD left her organization, stating “It has become far more neo-prohibitionist than I ever wanted or envisioned.”
yppp TIL even though 300 was historically inaccurate, most of the one-liners (“We will fight in the shade”, “Tonight we dine in Hell”, “Only spartan women give birth to real men”) are word-for-word accurate quotes.
LkG79 TIL that the average office worker spends 77 minutes a day watching videos unrelated to their job, according to a 2017 survey.
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