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TIL 2% of women have a 4th color cone and can see about 90 million more colors than the rest of us.

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kOxNd TIL On May 19, 1983, Diane Downs shot her three children and drove them at 5-7 mph to the hospital. Her 7 yr old daughter was already dead, her other 2 children were in critical condition. She'd also shot herself in the forearm. She claimed she'd been carjacked. She was sentenced to life plus 50 yrs
YGvZ TIL Eric Clapton was long-conned by a witch who got him to take herbal baths, smear his own blood, & chant midnight incantations, all with a phone call. She convinced him to fly to the US to have sex with a virgin (herself), began asking for money, then sent pregnant pics of herself to the tabloids.
0dgjp TIL: After WWII, Allies introduced anti-censorship laws in Japan, leading to unique interpretations of obscenity. This inspired the tentacle porn industry, as mangaka Toshio Maeda explains how they used tentacles to evade the law.
neEJW TIL during the Battle of Lexington in the American Revolution there was a tense 10 minute standoff between the British and the Americans. A local mentally ill man took this time to wander between both sides trying to sell hard cider
VM4LQ TIL that the largest distributor of toys is not some toy company or store but rather McDonald's. 20% of all sales (Happy Meals) include a toy. It's 1.5 billion toys each year worldwide.