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TIL that colors can affect your decision what to buy

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yyDp TIL llamas are born with an extra pair of fighting teeth that they use to bite off other males’ testicles, making them the only fertile male in the group.
wLJQo TIL A future Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force decided to become an aviation engineer when as a boy was catching sweets from the American planes during the Berlin Airlift. Dr. Yarymovych worked also for NASA on Apollo program and is credited with initiation of GPS
LEG0 TIL that Croatia voluntarily joined Nazi Germany in WW2 and perpetuated a now largely-forgotten Holocaust of Serbs and Jews in Yugoslavia. Their methods of genocide were so brutal that even the Nazis had to tell the Croatians to stop.
oBy8A TIL that Stockbridge Police Chief William J. Obanhein, who in 1964 posed for Norman Rockwell famous Ruby Bridges painting "The Problem We All Live With", was surprisingly also the “Officer Obie” of Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 hit song “Alice’s Restaurant.”
KGZQ TIL that the cookiecutter shark feeds on animals much larger than itself by taking out small round cuts of meat from their bodies.