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And does an emerald hue always mean it's time to run inside?

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p8dL4 TIL the US Army suppressed a movie on the psychological affects of war on veterans called Let There Be Light. It was made just after WW2 and wasn't released until the 1980s, over 30 years later.
WkG1A TIL Sir Isaac Newton repeatedly did experiments sticking a bodkin (a very sharp needle) between his eyeball and his eye socket, “as neare to backside of my eye as I could”,he was quoted. He did this til he saw spots. He did it because he hoped he might learn something about color.
YpOQZ TIL that, at the time of his death aged 97 years and 4 days, Harland Fairweather was the oldest person ever with a living parent. His mother Violent Brown died almost five months later at age 117.
R0A6 TIL there is a species of deer in Germany who won’t cross the border where the Iron Curtain once stood, even though that border has been gone physically for 20 years.
Wk5xX TIL The philosopher Aristotle wrote in his Poetics (c. 335 BC) that comedy is a representation of inferior people, not indeed in the full sense of the word bad, but the laughable is a species of the base or ugly. It consists in some blunder or ugliness that does not cause pain or disaster