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TIL That the color blue doesn’t exist in the animal or plant kingdoms, and is instead created by various optical illusions

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QNNpL TIL the first and last Australian torchbearers for the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games were Nova Peris & Cathy Freeman, who are both Aboriginal women, both Olympic gold medalists, both holders of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) and were both previously awarded Young Australian of the Year.
Z81LG TIL thanks to an erroneous description of a US Customs flag in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter", since the 1870s there's been a popular conspiracy theory that the USA has an official alternative flag, the "Civil Flag", with vertical stripes.
6Eool TIL in a survey of leading economists, only 8 percent agreed with a proposal to prohibit "unconscionably excessive" price gouging during natural disasters in Connecticut. 51 percent disagreed with the proposal, 15 percent were uncertain and 8 percent had no opinion
e0pYg TIL Humans are the only mammals that develop breasts that are permanently enlarged.
a8B40 TIL a man in 2005 successfully negotiated a series of online trades that got progressively more valuable, ending when he traded an acting role in a movie for a two-story farmhouse. The man started the series of trades with a paperclip.