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TIL bees are color-blind to red light, so red and black are no different in the eyes of bees, and that they can only recognize four colors of yellow, cyan, blue, and purple.

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bDZ7 TIL in Denmark it’s illegal to burn the flags of foreign countries but legal to burn the Danish flag
epVen TIL the FDIC is a US government corporation created in 1933 that guarantees all customer deposits at US banks are protected in the event of a bank run or failure
v1WeB TIL, in Disney's Mulan (1998), Mulan touches her hair a lot because the animators noticed that Mulan’s voice actress Ming-Na Wen, touched her hair a lot while recording. So, they added it to the character.
oRp47 TIL that "Schrodinger's Cat" -- the famous thought experiment in quantum mechanics where an unobserved cat is both alive and dead -- was not proposed by Erwin Schrodinger to highlight the principle, but rather to mock its absurdity.
7QoP TIL that the folklore of the indigenous people of Flores, Indonesia tells of short, hairy humanoids who spoke their own language. In 2003, archaeologists found fossils of dwarf humanoids on Flores – which were 13,000 years old.