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TIL Night vision goggles are green because we see in more shades of green than any other colour.

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8a6R8 TIL that in the 1952 polio epidemic in Denmark, mortality was over 85 per cent due to a shortage of respirators. Dr Bjorn Ibsen invented a new kind of ventilator, proved it worked and then recruited thousands of volunteers to hand-pump them for weeks (they were fully manual). Mortality fell to 26%.
NXV5J TIL that in 2016, a top Argentinian polo player won a prestigious tournament using six horses, all of which were clones of the same horse, his champion mare, Cuartetera.
4XmOX TIL Canada recycles just 9 per cent of its plastics with the rest dumped in landfill and incinerators or tossed away as litter, a new report shows.
5Yxgn TIL that Coco Chanel the iconic French fashion designer and business woman was also a Nazi Spy. Working as a spy, Chanel was directly involved in a plan for the Third Reich to take control of Madrid.
l7MPB TIL that in the 1600s there was an English chef called Robert May who made pastry ships that featured cannons with real gunpowder, which, when lit for mock battle, caused the ships to explode in a cloud of smoke