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TIL When you open your eyes in a prefectly dark room you don't see black, but " eigengrau ", a shafe of grey

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NX4kJ TIL that the highest point in the Netherlands is Mount Scenery, located in the Caribbean.
ZpKaa TIL about the Cotswold Olimpick Games, an annual public celebration of games and sports held in the Cotswolds of England. Events included horse-racing, coursing with hounds, running, jumping, dancing, sledgehammer throwing, fighting with swords and cudgels, quarterstaff, shin-kicking, and wrestling
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Dxyp TIL if John Belushi backed out of Animal House, Meat Loaf was cast to replace him
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