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TIL, in my first-time post you all, there are 5 types of color-blindness

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pZlN TIL Walt Disney’s mother, Flora Disney, died from a gas leak attributed to a faulty furnace that Walt had installed in the home he bought both parents. She was found collapsed in the bathroom; her husband fainted while trying to get her out.
6EMym TIL there is a town in Nebraska called Monowi with a population of one. The only resident is a woman, Eiler who is the mayor, clerk, treasurer, librarian, bartender and the only person left in the US’ tiniest town.
l7OGB TIL: Sweet Potatoes are a commercial crop in Ontario, Canada
KOy7a TIL Gerbils are illegal as pets in California due to its climate being so similar to the gerbil's natural desert habitat that state officials are concerned that gerbils who escape or are released into the wild could establish feral colonies
8aBxK TIL about Clarence Dally, perhaps the first person to die of man-made radiation in 1904. He was an assistant to Thomas Edison on a new x-ray machine. He had to have both of his hands amputated but eventually died from cancer. Edison refused to work with x-rays ever again.