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TIL that "555-nanometer wavelength green" (which is similar to the shade of green used in "green screens") is the most visible color because it stimulates the most cones in the eye.

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OX7g TIL the Canadian women’s national hockey team is 43-24-1 all-time vs the US women’s team. Against the rest of the world they are 120-1.
lgV1 TIL of Princess Nora University, the largest women-only university in the world. It has 50,000 students, over 600 buildings, a sustainable design, a library that can hold 5 million books, multiple research hospitals, a convention center, and an automated metro system.
PYQPw TIL A man in Florida drowned on his birthday, after crashing his car into a fire hydrant. He had managed to get out of his car, but was then sucked into a sinkhole likely created by the water pressure resulting from the fire hydrant's destruction.
oRwor TIL One of the first dramatic TV shows was 'The Television Ghost' which started airing in 1931 on an experimental television network. The presenter dressed up as as a ghost and told stories of murder victims. No recordings exist of it and it's considered lost media.
neov9 TIL that when temperatures drop in their habitat, since the bacteria that lets them digest their food is temperature dependent, sloths may starve to death on a full stomach, because they cannot process the food ingested.