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TIL we could have 4 traffic light colors

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m18lx TIL "Flaws" was the nickname given to the sharks used in Jaws (due to their constant malfunction). As a result, Spielberg relied on the famous "D/E flat" notes to suggest the presence of Jaws, rather than actually showing him (more often)
pYygp TIL Neanderthal tooth plaque indicates they used poplar (source of salicylic acid aka aspirin) and penicillin mold about 40k years before Bayer made aspirin or Fleming discovered penicillin.
7VVL TIL in the 60s, the CIA sponsored a Harvard study where undergraduate student were humiliated and subjected to “brutalizing psychological experiments”. The student who had the worse reaction to the experiment was Ted Kaczynski who later became the Unabomber.
OGBAa TIL that all but one the first cryogenically frozen humans eventually decomposed due to either mismanagement, faulty equipment or family issues.
rRW7y TIL that in the 1870s margarine, the economical rival to butter, was mandated in New Hampshire to be dyed pink in order to help dairy farmers. The reasoning: nobody would buy pink margarine.