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TIL about ColorADD - A system of symbols designed to help colourblind people distinguish colours

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xVMeb TIL that lemurs, flying foxes and narrow-striped mongooses got to the Madagascar by rafting there, according to scientists.
Y7R0x TIL Ants sleep for 5 hours a day in short 1-2 minute naps with their longest being around 10.
Qeoe TIL A customer had to be dragged from a burning Hamburg, Germany sex shop by firefighters when he refused orders to evacuate. He had shut himself inside a private booth to watch a film (“Throbbin Hood”) and was heard complaining (while coughing from smoke inhalation) that he hadn’t “finished yet”
R7lr9 TIL that Killian, a black labrador, saved a baby boy from an abusive babysitter by staying between the baby and the sitter and alerting the parents. Parents tried recording the scene, and the sitter was convicted.
kJWm7 TIL there are Japanese, Chinese and Korean studies correlating male nose size and penis size. For Japanese studies, cadavers were used and "stretched length" was measured.