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TIL that blue is officially the national colour of Ireland, even though green is more popular.

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x6Awb TIL about the Wada Test, a procedure that "shuts down" one hemisphere of your brain at a time, leaving the other one awake. This allows the hemispheres to be evaluated for language and memory capacities individually.
EApV TIL in 1974 a 20 year old man kidnapped himself in an attempt to get $5000 from his parents. He was found a couple hours later in a camper van behind his house.
lADr TIL that in 1847 the wife of Mountain Man John Johnson was killed by a group of Crow Indians which prompted Johnson to embark on a vendetta against the tribe. He supposedly killed and scalped more than 300 Crow Indians and then devoured their livers to avenge the death of his wife.
woGR8 TIL that Tycho Brahe, a Danish astronomer, lost his nose in a duel with his cousin over either a mathematical formula or who was the superior mathematician. He wore a prosthetic nose for the rest of his life.
MYrm Today i learned, there is a river in china so polluted it has turned red.