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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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JYmEQ TIL Paul Van Doren, one of the founders of shoe company Vans, dropped out of school at the age of 14, when he was in the eighth grade. Interested in horses, he went to the race tracks every day. His mother then insisted that he get a job in a shoe factory.
R5w5Q TIL that in Canada tenants are liable for unpaid taxes relating to rental income if the landlord lives outside of the country.
MeED8 TIL that a research team figured out how to produce a fossil in as little as five days
R7LQ8 TIL Safer Internet Day is an Internet risk awareness day held every second day of the second week of February in the European Union. It conducts awareness campaigns focusing on issues related to cyberbullying, child pornography & pedophilia online, sexting, loss of privacy, sedentary lifestyle, etc.
XxWk TIL that Google will award $30M to the first privately funded teams to successfully 1) land a robot on the Moon, 2) navigate it for more than 500m on its surface, and 3) transmit back high-def videos and images of the feat. Countries like Brazil, Chile, India, Hungary have joined the competition.