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TIL carrots do not actually help most people to see in the dark. This myth was propaganda used by the Royal Air Force to explain why their pilots had improved success during night air battles, but was actually used to disguise advances in radar technology.

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b99Lj TIL people occasionally find containers of butter in peat bogs that are hundreds of years old
rNNDw TIL that the freed Africans Americans who were resettled in Liberia ended up oppressing the native Liberians in the same way that they were mistreated in the USA, including by establishing plantations
6EJwY TIL that the first non-stop UK to Canada flights were RAF Canberras carrying BBC recordings of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, so that Canadians were able to watch it the same day it happened.
woOGM TIL shipwrecks grow "rusticles"
NxBE TIL People with psychopathic tendencies have an impaired sense of smell, which points to inefficient processing in the front part of the brain. Those scoring highly on psychopathic traits were more likely to actively struggle to both identify smells & discern the difference between smells.