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TIL that people with normal color vision might actually be seeing the same colors differently

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v1Ev8 TIL that German WWI ace German pilot Oswald Boelcke was so respected by his peers that the British Royal Flying Corps dispatched an aircraft to drop a wreath over his home airfield. He was so influential that his dogfighting tactics are still used today in modern aerial warfare.
p8Be4 TIL that frequent sex in a relationship isn't associated with self-reported happiness in couples, but is associated with an increase in an instinctive, positive emotions towards your partner.
VBGOG TIL In China, drivers will rather run over and kill the pedestrians they hit, as death compensation fees is like lower than medical for survivors
v5kB TIL that in 1834 Mormon leader Joseph Smith desecrated an Indian grave mound and declared the bones were from Zelph a White Indian who worked for the great Prophet Onandagus. Smith and his buddies divided up the bones and they are now lost.
epAKJ TIL Peljidiin Genden 9th Prime Minister of Mongolia was brought to Moscow to meet Stalin and shouted "You bloody Georgian, you have become a virtual Russian Czar". Genden then reportedly slapped Stalin, broke his pipe, and hinted that Mongolia was considering an alliance with the Empire of Japan.