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mr0x TIL that in 2009, a Polish woman filed a lawsuit against a hotel in Egypt after claiming that sperm in the swimming pool got her 13 year old daughter pregnant.
M7oVB TIL what I was taught is wrong. The pigment primary colors are not Red Yellow Blue. Red & Green are not complementary. Red's complement is Cyan, because Cyan pigment perfectly absorbs red light. The pigment primaries are cyan magenta and yellow, opposite of the light primaries Red, Green, and yellow
VB7oQ TIL about The black nun of Moret, Louise Marie-Therese, a French nun whose origins are unknown with a lot of royal connections, who could have been the hidden daughter of the Queen of France
j6JDp TIL there's plastic in my blood. A lot of it.
epajJ TIL John von Neumann was the first to use the term "singularity" to refer to a hypothetical point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization. Many academics dispute the plausability of a singularity.