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TIL Shinee's "Lucifer" was written by Bebe Rexha

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PYbkO TIL that blind people may detect and respond to light if it is a kind of skyblue light at 481nm. "There is more to the eye than rods and cones — the discovery of a third photoreceptor is rewriting the visual rulebook."
X0PKQ TIL that foie gras was originally widely known as a Jewish food and is thought by some to have been brought to Europe by Judeans
Bg45d TIL Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first saint from the USA and found of it's first religious order of nuns, was the daughter of the first anatomy professor in Columbia college and daughter-in-law to the last Royal Public Notary of New York City.
bbm0 TIL that the words ‘under God’ were added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954 in response to the Communist threat of the times.
R76X6 TIL that when South Korea was upset with North Korea over nuclear testing they blasted K-pop music over the border to annoy them and included the boy band hit “Bang Bang Bang.”