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TIL that men and women see colors and motion differently. Objects that appear orange to women look yellowish to men, and objects that appear green to women look blue-green to men.

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Ke1w TIL A cat named Cleo tracked down and found her owner who had been moved into a nursing home. Nancy Cowen forced to say goodbye to her loveable cat whom she had adopted as a stray eight years earlier but weeks later Cleo, to the amazement of everyone, managed to find her.
ZpmKB TIL that the reason mint tastes cold is that menthol activates a protein called TRPM8 in your nerve cells that normally respond to cold. It is the only food that does do. (Although capsaicin, similarly, activates a different protein, VR1, that senses heat.)
8alwa TIL that when Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a Soviet sniper, was being promoted for 257 confirmed kills against the invading Germans her acceptance speech was simply "I'll get more".
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