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TIL about trans-resveratrol, a phytoestrogen which may have either anti-estrogenic or estrogenic effects depending on different situations

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leGK TIL that US Law does not protect speech that is “likely to provoke the average person to retaliation”
e1QD TIL “Impossible” colors exist such as Red-Green (NOT brown) and Yellow-Blue (NOT Green) that humans can not NORMALLY see. By staring at adjacent bits of red and green, or of yellow and blue, your brain will eventually create a color you’ve never seen before!
J1yy1 TIL computer servers are getting so hot and cooling them emits so much carbon (as much as the aviation industry), manufacturers are dunking servers into nonconductive liquid tanks to cool them and help their clients meet power usage effectiveness regulations
0wQZp TIL The post office is the only government service that requires to reserve 75 years of pensions for their employees
5Yr9R TIL In 2012, the NOAA was forced to publish that Mermaids weren’t real. This was due to a Sci-Fi program on Animal Planet claiming that a Mermaid’s body had been found on a beach. Some believed it and contacted the NOAA, making them state: "No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found,".