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TIL Pablo Picasso would often make a sketch on his checks before signing them, knowing no one would cash them since they were now worth more than the face value of the check.

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6v1J TIL if you rub a grasshopper’s hind leg for five seconds every minute for four hours, it will trigger its brain to transform, swarm, and become locust
4kmVa TIL of a big science guy named einstern
Yg8B TIL that the RGB color gamut used in electronics can not display all possible colors. Even if yellow is added, the device can still only display 87% of all colors that humans are able to perceive.
BLaD TIL that a chemical called capsiacin (found in chillies and peppers) unblocks stuffy noses by irritating the nerve fibres in the nostril, blocking nerve impulses.
jNxmj Paradoxically, the more you save on a flash drive, the lighter it gets.