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TIL that humans have 3 types of cone cells, allowing us to see all the colors we can see, other animals like dogs and cats only have two so they can’t see red for example while chickens have four and can even see UV Light.

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xVKO7 TIL a tree was planted in memory of Beatle George Harrison in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park — and died after a beetle infestation.
YpBxG TIL Christopher Lee (Saruman in Lord of the Rings, and Count Dooku in Star Wars) played and sung in several heavy metal albums, including a collection of Christmas carol covers.
VBX4p TIL an Indianapolis fertility doctor ultimately inseminated nearly 100 women (to date) between the late 70s / early 80s with his own sperm unbeknownst to them, and most of the families live within 25 miles of each other
deK8 TIL that more than 190 concentration camps were built by the fascist Francoists to imprison and kill Spanish Republicans during the Spanish Civil War.
nea0o TIL Although rarely seen alive, in 2015 a Giant squid swam into a harbor near Tokyo on Christmas Eve. A diver jumped into the water to film and swam close to the squid for several minutes before it returned to the ocean.