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TIL Shakira was banned from her school choir because her music teacher didn’t think she could sing and ‘sounded like a goat’

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N7edE TIL Night vision goggles are green because because the human eye can differentiate more shades of green than any other color.
yQxXl TIL that Marvel, DC, and other major comic book publishers adopted the "Comics Code" in 1954. Under the Code, criminals could not be depicted sympathetically, and police, judges, and government officials could not be shown as corrupt. The code was revised over time and was abandoned in the 2000s.
bdg0 TIL the ‘sand mafia’ is a huge problem in India, illegally mining sand and causing permanent environmental damage.
kJdM7 TIL that there's an Egyptian Hieroglyph unicode bock! And it has many interesting characters! 𓂺
oROkR Til wampums were strings of beads used by native Americans as currency among other things. When colonists came, they adopted the practice but then found out an easier way to make them in bulk. This caused inflation and rendered the currency obsolete