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TIL for color blind people peanut butter looks green instead of brown

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WkkMY TIL During his 2009 TED talk, Bill Gates opened a jar of mosquitoes saying “Malaria is spread by mosquitoes. I brought some… I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected” & waited for ~a minute before telling the audience that the bugs were malaria-free.
xV9ZD TIL on 1973, due to high prices for beef, fish from a pond in Bowne Park, in Flushing, Queens, New York, ended in kitchen refrigerators in the neighborhood
0X0R TIL A few weeks before the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald was photographed and followed in Mexico City. He’s quoted as saying that he plans on killing Kennedy. This information was passed along to the FBI by the head of the American Communist party.
neXjd TIL Lt Colonel Matt Urban fought in seven campaigns in WWII and was wounded seven times. He returned from injury so often that the Germans gave him the nickname “the Ghost.” When he was given the Medal of Honor, his citation referred to ten separate acts of bravery during just the Normandy campaign.
R7O1j TIL when Germany invaded Western Europe many WWI monuments were damaged or destroyed. However Hitler assigned the SS to protect the Canadian Vimy Ridge memorial because it was a monument to peace and those lost. Not to an allied victory