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TIL carrots used to be purple until they were bred orange.
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64Nm
TIL that Albert Einstein was an avid supporter of civil rights and called racism “a disease of white people.”
GYaM7
TIL the inability to recognise faces is called Prosopagnosia (face blindness).
MeGG7
TIL between 1989 to 1992, Los Angeles watch merchant Lance Thomas was involved in 4 shootouts with armed robbers, killing 5 in exchange of being wounded 5 times but not severely. He eventually closed his shop to avoid further bloodshed two days before the 1992 L.A. riots broke out.
R7L41
TIL George Miller, an M.D. at the time, was inspired to make Mad Max (1979) when he witnessed fights break out during a gas shortage in Australia. He assumed in the future nations would not implement infrastructure for renewable energy until it was too late and this could lead to a dystopia.
kOpXm
TIL that the Lumière brothers, the inventors of motion picture, once said that "the cinema is an invention without any future" and gave up on the technology to go back to focusing on photography, so their involvement in the early history of film was quite brief