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TIL camouflage does not work on color-blind people and for this reason some were picked as snipers

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xVOlo TIL that when trying to expand into the China in the late 1980s, KFC mistakenly mistranslated their famous “It’s Finger Lickin’ Good” slogan to “Eat Your Fingers Off”
4kg8N TIL copper is one of the few metals that can occur in nature in a directly usable metallic form, leading it to be perhaps the first metal to be mined and crafted by humans.
exn6 TIL Powdered alcohol is a thing. So where are my single serve Crystal Light gimlets?
WXAY TIL that Charles Darwin published his work, “On the Origin of Species” this day, 155 years ago.
Qyxd TIL that in Japan there is a robot that wins rock paper scissors 100% of the time (guaranteed)