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TIL There's Evidence Humans Didn't Actually See Blue Until Modern Times

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yV5yp TIL that Peter Dinklage’s brother Jonathan is the lead violinist and concertmaster of the Hamilton Broadway orchestra.
DE4v TIL of Stefania Follini, an Italian interior designer recruited by NASA in ‘89 for an experiment in Circadian Rhythms, where she spent 4 months in underground isolation proving our bodies naturally fall into 28 and 48 hour days
Vn6m TIL that one of The Simpsons episodes resulted in increased awareness of Heimlich maneuver and thus helped saving lives
vP1Z8 TIL that there are more trees on earth (3 trillion) than stars in the Milky Way (100-400 billion).
wl6J TIL Matt Damon and Ben Affleck inserted an oral sex scene between the two professors in Good Will Hunting to see which studio executives actually read the script. Harvey Weinstein liked the script, but hated that scene which showed Damon & Affleck he had actually read it so they gave him the rights.