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TIL Isaac Newton created the modern color wheel

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Mbgb TIL that a massive Dutch famine during WWII helped discover celiac disease. Sick children recovered when wheat was scare, but fell ill once they resumed eating gluten.
695gJ TIL that a Canadian Special Forces Sniper has achieved the world record for the longest confirmed kill shot in military history at a distance of 2.2 miles.
KYaBB TIL in 1961, the Prime Minister of Japan, Nobusuke Kishi, was visited by the new leader of South Korea, Park Chung Hee. Park, a former collaborator with Imperial Japan, extensively praised the "Japanese spirit," which embarrassed Kishi due to Park's rhetoric being unchanged from WW2-era Japan
x69Pw TIL that the mirrors required for the production of advanced microchips are so flat that if scaled to the size of Germany the highest point will only be a tenth of a millimeter. Because of that the German technologies company "Zeiss" is the only one in the world able to produce these mirrors.
4kW4b TIL Labubu is in fact NOT slang for libido