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TIL that the Dani people from West New Guinea only differentiate between two colours, mili cool/dark and mola for warm/light

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WWZ4 TIL that Otto Skorzeny, a Nazi commando during WWII, was tried for war crimes for having worn Allied uniforms to conduct missions behind the lines. He was acquitted after British commandos testified that they did the same during the war and convicting him would have meant an indictment against them.
4XgGJ TIL that in Zurich, the garbage disposal is financed by selling official plastic bags for non-recyclable waste. Garbage trucks will not even pick up unofficial bags from houses and they instead have to be placed in designated neighbourhood containers.
0wWk5 TIL of the TomTato, a commercially available graft of potato and tomato, which will grow potatos below ground and tomatos above ground.
kJlVE TIL the largest spider ever recorded was a goliath bird-eating spider measured at a leg span of 11 inches (about the size of a dinner plate) in 1965
MeWRW TIL When Rick James attended a dinner party in Hawaii with Salvador Dali, Dali insisted on drawing him, sketched him on a napkin and gave it to him. The priceless memento became an inky blob the next morning when he smoked a joint and went swimming with the napkin still in his swim trunks.