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TIL there are glasses which allow a red-green colourblind person to see colours the way everyone else does.

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9wvk6 TIL that the hit game "Among Us" violated the Geneva Convention by using the Red Cross symbol on a certain area of the map ingame.
nWp9 TIL When visiting the US, Russian President Boris Yeltsin got so drunk he left the White House, in his underwear, to go get pizza.
xJOk TIL the last man to be executed by firing squad in the USA asked for a bulletproof vest as his last wish
80rG TIL Mordechai Vanunu, a nuclear technician in Israel and anti WMD activist leaked a photograph to the British press of evidence Israel had nuclear weapons. He was later tracked by Mossad, drugged, bound, thrown in a bag and renditioned to Israel for trial.
61gW TIL Ernest Hemingway begged his wife not to send him for more electroshock treatments because he lost so much of his memory he couldn’t even remember his own name. He committed suicide the day after his 36th shock treatment.