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TIL Babies can only see in black, white and grey for three months.

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JYNQl The coronavirus crisis is taxing New York City’s 911 system like never before. Operators pick up a new call every 15.5 seconds. The Fire Department said it has averaged more than 5,500 ambulance requests each day — about 40% higher than usual, eclipsing the total call volume on Sept. 11, 2001.
VBgMk TIL that the state of Massachusetts tried to nullify the Vietnam War by passing a law that its citizens could not be conscripted in an undeclared war. The Supreme Court declined to hear their case
0wAV5 TIL: Paypal can and will place a hold on your funds for 180 days and permanently limit your business account at their discretion. They do NOT have to give you any reason for doing so according to their User Agreement. Even if you want to fix whatever they say is wrong, you CANNOT know what to fix.
6EReW TIL The deep-dish pizza was invented in 1943 when someone at the small pizza shop Pizzeria Uno in Illinois decided to make a pizza using a cake mold.
W77wN TIL that there are roughly eight-hundred-quadrillion times more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than atoms on Earth