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TIL Magenta isn't a real color. Turns out its just a placeholder that your brain uses when it gets a mixture of Red and Blue light without any Green light

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R7VQa TIL about steam train driver Wally Oaks who heroically gave his life to stop his train after an accident engulfed the engine in flames. He saved all passengers and was posthumously awarded a George Cross for bravery.
Rj88 TIL that on the 10 August, 1901, two academics believe they accidentally time traveled back to 1792 and one of the pair believe that she saw Marie Antoinette.
kdKd TIL- To celebrate the launch of Windows 7 in Japan, Burger King made a burger with seven patties. A spokesman said “the group of people who have an interest in…the 7-patty burger — overlaps with the group of people who have an interest in Windows 7.”
OoRDg TIL Daylight-saving time is a killer. By pushing the clocks forward one hour each spring, every year on the Monday after the switch, hospitals report a 24% spike in heart-attack visits. In the autumn when we gain an hour of sleep there's a 21% reduction.
JYL9l TIL that by claiming her breast implants were big and impractical, an exotic dancer in the US was able to get the IRS to agree that they were a business expense for her tax return.