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TIL men and women see colors differently. In general, women are better at discriminating among colors while men excel at tracking fast-moving objects and discerning detail from a distance.

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JY5mk TIL in the days following the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Ronald Reagan called the killing "a great tragedy that began when we began compromising with law and order and people started choosing which laws they'd break."
nepaP TIL, 5 exabytes of information was created between 12k BC and 2003 AD. But that rate has gone up to every two days by 2003. An exabyte is 1,024 petabytes, while a petabyte is 1,024 terabytes.
j64NN TIL of the "Order of the Occult hand," a secret society of journalists that slip the meaningless and telltale phrase "It was as if some occult hand had…" in print as an inside joke.
D1XDY TIL That the ARA General Belgrano that was sunk during the Falklands War (1982) between Argentina and the United Kingdom, was at anchor at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (1942).
W7NeA TIL Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise would've have walked on the Moon as commander of Apollo 19 before budget cuts cancelled that flight