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

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X07O6 TIL that Nintendo invented a new type of flower to promote Pikmin, their game about plant-like aliens, back in 2002
16ppO TIL that the ancient fabric called Dhaka Muslin from Bengal was the most valuable fabric on the planet. It was so transparent that English women wearing it was accused of appearing in public naked. Currently no one alive knows how to make this fabric due to the exploitation of East India Company.
p8WXN TIL That Ulysses S. Grant's middle initial stood for nothing. It was a typo on a application to West Point.
grA87 TIL that after being killed during John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, the body of Brown's son Watson was severely mutilated and put on display in a nearby medical college by pro-slavery secessionists. Union soldiers burned the college to the ground in 1862.
pe8 TIL that Joanne Rowling, better known by her initials J K, does not have a middle name, according to her birth certificate. The use of the author’s initials instead of her full name was a marketing ploy designed to make her work acceptable to boys, who actively choose not to read books by women.