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TIL Milton Bradley introduced the game Simon at New York's famous Studio 54 night club

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6980W TIL In 1902, Lionel Walter Rothschild brought 6 Edible Dormice (Glis glis) back to Tring, England from Hungary. Some of the 6 escaped, breeding and growing to an estimated 10,000 mice in a 200 mile radius around Tring that are both an invasive species and protected species.
Nj9P TIL of blind sight, a type of blindness where the eyes are still functional. As a result, the individual is not physically aware of their surroundings, but their brain can subconsciously see and avoid obstacles.
W4rX TIL an archaic term for the kestrel was windfucker
Z85wG Today I Learned that the diagonal of a 4D Cube is equal to 2 edge lengths of itself.
a87o TIL - After Mao grabbed power in China there were so many suicides in Shanghai that people were afraid to walk near skyscrapers for fear that suicides might land on them.