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TIL Isaac Newton created the modern color wheel
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TIL Sun Li Jen, a commander in the ROC in WW2 is known as “Rommel of the East” due to his military achievements in various campaigns. He is named the most capable Chinese field commander in WW2. He spent his last 30 years under house arrest in Taiwan due to suspicions on collaborating with the CIA.
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TIL that 15million people in the UK tuned in at 10pm on a Sunday evening to watch rubber puppet show Spitting Image - one of the highest post watershed TV audiences of all time.
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TIL that part of what makes The Exorcist so scary are the sound effects, which are meant to trigger primal fear in the viewer. The designer used animal sounds throughout the film, including a swarm of bees.
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TIL There’s an app in development that rewards people for not being on their phone and forces them socialise together
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TIL that instead of chucking live lobsters into boiling water or splitting their heads open, you can anesthetize them with clove oil before cooking. And as a bonus, it makes them taste better (probably due to reduced stress hormones and reduced hemolymph loss).