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TIL Fraggles are just the ‘evolutive form’ of doozers that stop working.

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AN7w7 TIL that an Australian golf course had a water hazard with sharks.
GYek1 TIL that "555-nanometer wavelength green" (which is similar to the shade of green used in "green screens") is the most visible color because it stimulates the most cones in the eye.
DMGD TIL It has been 50 years since Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor-neuron disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Hawking’s condition was first diagnosed when he was 21, and he was not expected to see his 25th birthday.
QJ8y6 TIL that Geoffrey Tandy, a cryptogamist (algae specialist) who was mistakenly hired by Bletchley Park, significantly contributed to breaking the Enigma cipher, utilising his expertise to preserve otherwise unsalvageable codebooks from a torpedoed U-boat
Q8Wp TIL that the U.S has less than 5% of the worlds population yet nearly 25% of the worlds prison and jail population