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TIL That the patterns you see when you close your eyes have a name: “phosphenes”

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ep7K6 TIL "Children" by Robert Miles was a "dream trance" record aimed at reducing car accidents in 1990s Italy. With more clubbers falling asleep at the wheel after nights of dancing, drinking and drugs, DJs began playing records like "Children" to calm crowds down before sending them home.
P1VQE TIL an album by the group The Mamas and The Papas was pulled from shelves for indecency because the cover had a toilet in the corner of the shot
akLo TIL that the price of gold is determined by a very small number of banks, who also happen to be gold traders.
gM1P4 TIL that Frank Herbert’s Dune was rejected by more than 20 publishing houses before first being accepted by Chilton, known today mostly for their automobile repair manuals.
oR4vE TIL that the USDA cold storage is a public report, and the US currently has almost a billion pounds of frozen french fries