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TIL the United States contains three electrical power grids: The West, The East, and Texas

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5YWvr TIL: There is a medical condition called Achromatopsia in which people only see black, white, and shades of gray.
axeb TIL residents of the city of Glasgow in Scotland have a disproportionately low life expectancy and no one’s sure why.
OG9wL TIL 4-yr-old Cecelia Cichan was the sole survivor of the deadliest aviation accident to have only one person survive (NW Airlines Flight 255). Her mom, dad, brother & 153 others died. She was found still belted into her seat with third-degree burns & fractures in her skull, collarbone, & leg.
0wjyy TIL, due to an increase in Internet addiction in South Korea, the government passed a law in 2011 called the Cinderella or Shutdown law. This policy bans children under the age of 16 from playing online games between 12am to 6am.
R5lQj TIL that a lot of Latin American flags look similar because they based their color scheme proposed by Goethe, who derived it from his work rebuking (incorrectly) Newton's laws of optics