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TIL Colonial Britain drained India of $64.82 trillion

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Ooyya TIL the survivors of the 2010 Copiapó mining accident have taken an oath of silence not to reveal certain details of what happened
vPbeB TIL The actress that played Carol Anne in all 3 Poltergeist movies died at the age of 12 of a heart attack.
Lk4Nr TIL that there is a rare condition called tetrachromacy, which allows some people, mostly women, to see 100 million different colors, due to having four color receptors. This is far more than the 1 million shades normal people can see with their 3 color receptors.
lmmV TIL the creator of Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston, also created the polygraph machine
KY1bJ TIL about Pevensey Castle a medieval British castle built on top of a Roman Fort which last saw active military use in 1940 when hidden machine gun posts were added to allow it to better serve the same function it had for the past 1650 years: guarding against a landing by enemies on the cost.