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TIL the term “pixel” is short for “picture element”
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TIL that blindsight is a specific form of blindness that allows people to respond to visual stimuli in their environment despite not being able to consciously see anything.
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TIL Angelina Jolie had a mastectomy due to having an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer. Her chance of developing breast cancer dropped from 87% to under 5% after the mastectomy.
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TIL the Grand Army of the Republic, a fraternity composed of veterans of the Union Army, Union Navy, and the Marines who served in the American Civil War, was dissolved in 1956 at the death of its last member, Civil War veteran Albert Woolson. At its peak, the organization had 410,000 members.
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TIL raw salmon isn't a classic sushi topping. It gradually became popular only after Norway started selling farmed parasite-free Atlantic salmon to Japan in the early 1990s.
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TIL that due to elephants with tusks getting poached, humans are literally causing natural selection from more elephants being born tuskless over the past decades.