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TIL Whales are colorblind and see the world only in black and white

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exvE TIL The British Museum is older than the United States of America
e0v6 TIL Academy Award winners are not allowed to sell their statuette without first offering it to the Academy for $1
jNw9M TIL George Lucas approved of Mel Brooks’ Star Wars parody Spaceballs and signed off on a fair use agreement. The only condition was that no Spaceballs merchandise would be made to compete with Star Wars merchandise. This is why there’s never been any Spaceballs figures, cereal, or flamethrower.
W7RZo TIL that the typical tax evader in the U.S. is a male under the age of 50 in a high tax bracket and with a complicated return, and the most common means of tax evasion is the overstatement of charitable contributions, particularly church donations.
4knjo TIL that Western zoos do not buy or sell animals to one another but trade them instead.