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TIL the human eye only needs 5 photons to elicit visual experience.

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4bW6 TIL, in Texas, to prevent a thief from escaping with your property, you can legally shoot them in the back as they run away.
rN7yy TIL that Agent Orange has afflicted three million Vietnamese people, at least 150,000 of whom were born with severe birth abnormalities. Between 1961 and 1971, U.S. forces sprayed a class of color-coded herbicides across Vietnam's rural environment, including Agent Orange, to damage food crops.
pYdw4 TIL that Soviet General Georgy Zhukov oversaw innovations on the Mongolian front, including replacing gasoline engines in tanks with diesel. These developments helped perfect the T-34 tank, considered the war's most outstanding all-purpose tank.
0ne1 TIL there are indy developers still selling new, professional quality games for the Dreamcast
6w1W TIL : Bob Marley was the father of 3 children born to 3 different women in one month.