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TIL Scientists don’t know how a squid color-camouflages its skin, as they’re completely colorblind.

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Wwvd TIL that the population of Ireland still hasn’t returned to where it was before the Potato Famine
yQROw TIL in 2018, an electrical engineer on board the Bellingshausen Research station in Antartica stabbed a fellow coworker in the chest multiple times because the colleague had been giving away the endings of books available in the research station’s library.
e0K1J TIL about the Hundred Flowers Campaign of 1956 China, in which Mao Zedong allowed citizens to speak out their opinions on the Communist regime freely before ending the campaign within a year and imprisoning those who spoke critically of the regime
b9M5j TIL Pneumonia uses hydrogen peroxide to weaken the immune system
ZAy4 TIL that Reagan declared ‘War on Drugs,’ in 1982 and privatized prisons in 1983.