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

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9YGM6 TIL: Hanako-san is a Japanese urban legend about the spirit of a young girl who haunts school toilets. According to the legend, if you summon Hanako-San, her bloody hand appears and pulls you into the toilet and straight to hell.
JLoV TIL Printer ink cost over 7 times more than Dom Perignon vintage champagne per milliliter
78b6Z TIL of the Hitler Teapot - a teapot that sold out at JC Penny stores once people noticed it resembled Hitler
wLGJM TIL that so many employees play online games during work hours, that Kongregate notices a significant drop-off in traffic around the time people start heading home. Another survey by PopCap Games, the company behind Bejeweled, indicated that 24 percent of respondents play games at work.
9wJlr TIL about the War of Jenkins' ear - a war between Spain and England that started when a British captain, Robert Jenkins, presented his severed ear to the British Parliament, claiming a Spanish officer had cut it off.