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TIL Wearing red-tinted glasses before you go out into low light will help train your eye to focus better

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R7W66 TIL: 'Budgie' & 'Parakeet' can refer to the same small Australian parrot, the Budgerigar. In nature it is mostly green, in captivity blues, whites & greys are also bred
LpVp TIL that a book attributed to Penelope Ashe was actually written by a group of 24 journalists. It was designed to be deliberately terrible with a lot of sex, to illustrate the point that American literary culture had become mindlessly vulgar. The book became a bestseller in 1969.
loMyr TIL that in 1482 there was a knight burned at the stake for homosexuality, and his name was Richard Puller
oRJyR TIL female Buddhist monks are forbidden to eat garlic
KOkpJ TIL the most expensive ZIP code is not in Beverly Hills, but Atherton, California. The median home sale there is over $7 million USD, which is 63% higher than the second most expensive ZIP code (Sagaponack, New York).