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TIL that after Claude Monet had cataract surgery, he could see ultraviolet light which made everything look more bluish and vibrant in his paintings

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QJZ4X TIL A soccer player faked a 20 year career without playing soccer.
BgMry TIL Mosquitos are humanity's deadliest predators; they have the highest kill toll on humans each year, and it has been claimed that almost half of the people who have ever lived have died of mosquito-vectored disease
Wy7o TIL Dean Norris, the actor who plays Hank Schrader, attended and graduated from Harvard before attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (generally regarded as one of the most renowned drama schools in the world).
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