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TIL the human eye can only perceive around 60fps

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kJGYm TIL there is still no scientific consensus for why "the dress" appears as either white-and-gold or black-and-blue
NXGe8 TIL about Don Ritchie, an Australian who intervened and prevented at least 180 suicide attempts at a notable suicide destination called The Gap. He lived nearby and would approach and ask “Can I help you in some way?”
Omy6 TIL that “MAS*H” audiences were so upset that character Col. H. Blake was killed when his plane was shot down over the Sea of Japan that actor McLean Stevenson appeared in a skit on The Cher Show afterwards in a lifeboat saying, “I’m OK! I’m OK!”
j6bn TIL a scientist allowed 78 bees, wasps and ants sting him to produce a ‘pain index’. he described the bullet ant’s sting as like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel.
ba90 TIL A wolverine once killed a polar bear in a zoo by latching onto its throat and suffocating it to death