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TIL that blind people may detect and respond to light if it is a kind of skyblue light at 481nm. "There is more to the eye than rods and cones — the discovery of a third photoreceptor is rewriting the visual rulebook."

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yQ5ZV TIL that Allen Klein, Rolling Stones manager and owner of the song “Dead Flowers,” which plays at the end of “The Big Lebowski,” initially wanted $150,000 for it. He was then convinced to let them use it for free when he saw the scene in which The Dude says, “I hate the fuckin’ Eagles, man!”
b6Z7E TIL in 1983, Atari buried truckloads of video gaming cartridges in a New Mexico landfill because they couldn’t sell them. The incident represented a turning point marking a decline of U.S gaming companies and allowing a few Japanese companies - Sega, Nintendo and Sony- to enter the U.S. market.
AD4Aa TIL in 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults. It wasn't till 2003 the Supreme Court reversed the decision with Lawrence v. Texas, invalidating sodomy laws in the remaining 14 states.
Y6Or TIL Idaho is nicknamed the “Gem State” because every known type of gemstone has been found there, including the star garnet which has only otherwise been found in India
6EJ7X TIL that the word "corgi" is welsh for "dwarf dog".