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TIL that Blue Jays aren’t actually blue, and only appear blue due to an optical illusion.

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epdE6 TIL The world's first Tokamak fusion reactor will start producing deuterium and tritium plasmas in the 2030s, and just the initial experimental trials will consume the totality of the world's tritium supply, most of which comes from Canada, or Canadian-designed CANDU reactors abroad.
nMEY TIL that Piggly Wiggly revolutionized grocery shopping in 1916 by allowing customers to select their own items, “To have no store clerks gab and smirk while folks are standing around ten deep to get waited on.”
WdNA TIL When you are ignored by a person whose attention means the most to you, the reaction in your brain will be similar to physical pain.
jNRRE TIL Your body has a protein called PER that determines when your body wakes up, and is the reason why you may wake up X amount of hours before your alarm - to prepare your body for the stress that the alarm causes you.
MeVxb TIL that the character of Venom started with a fan suggesting a way to upgrade Spiderman's costume. Marvel paid him $220 for the idea.