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TIL that the color magenta technically doesn’t exist — it does not match a particular wavelength of light, and the shade you perceive is a trick of the brain

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wDg6 TIL 40% of all Wikipedia vandalism is detected by a single bot. It has only 0.1% false positives.
ZdW4 TIL: When the Apollo 8 astronauts were sued by an atheist activist for reading from Genesis in lunar orbit, the Supreme Court threw out the case. Their reason? “Lack of jurisdiction” in orbit around the Moon.
9kXX TIL that the American government has covertly overthrown many democratically elected leaders around the world.
VyyQ TIL in every British nuclear submarine there is a handwritten letter from the British Prime Minister, to be opened only if the country has been decimated by nuclear war.
DQeWD TIL of William Rankin, a fighter pilot who survived trapped in a storm cloud after ejecting for 40 minutes.