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TIL that occasionally people who are born without a lens in their eye can see some of the Ultra-Violet spectrum.

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0d6bA TIL celebrity chef Jamie Oliver named his children "Poppy Honey Rosie" "Daisy Boo Pamela" "Petal Blossom Rainbow" "Buddy Bear Maurice" and "River Rocket Blue Dallas"
g5v7 TIL Denver Colorado has more marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks coffee shops, liquor stores, or public schools.
8evVa TIL that it is illegal to have a conversation across the Norwegian-Russian border
PYQAn TIL roughly 3 to 5 percent of the world’s population has an apathy toward music known as "musical anhedonia," in which their brain is biologically incapable of responding to any music whatsoever.
Bgp1e TIL in 2010 a temple was consecrated to Angrezi Devi, the "Dalits Goddess of English," in the village of Banka, India. Goddess English was meant to help Dalits overcome class barriers via language. However, local officials shut down the temple in 2013, and Goddess English was forced into "exile."