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TIL That the brain can be fooled into seeing colour images, when a coloured grid is overlayed across a black and white image.

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LBXv TIL: the IRS seized $33,000 from the checking account of a cash-only restaurant owner because she had deposited less than $10,000 at a time, which they viewed as an attempt to avoid triggering a required government report.
KYmvE TIL Eminem was asleep at home when he won Best Original Song at the 2003 Academy Awards for "Lose Yourself" to become the first hip-hop artist to win an Oscar. Em said, "...I didn’t watch it, either. At that point in time, Hailie had to be at school early in the morning, so [I was sleeping]".
nWdy9 TIL the International Rice Research Institute, based in the Philippines, helped other Southeast Asian nations develop and grow their rice industries during the 20th century. Today, the Philippines is the world's largest rice importer, importing from countries (Vietnam, Thailand, etc.) it once helped
E1x9p TIL Edward Norton is a prolific philanthropist, being president of the American Branch of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, a UN Goodwill Ambassador, member of Enterprise Community Partners, founding CrowdRise to raise funds for charity, and chairman of the board to Signature Theatre.
YplpZ Today I learned that "all bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon" is an example of a subsumptive containment hierarchy or "is-a" subsumption, where whiskey is the "superclass" and bourbon "is-a" subclass. The shorthand for this relationship is "Bourbon ⊆ Whiskey" or "Whiskey ⊇ Bourbon".