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TIL There there an opposite to color blindness that give you super color vision.

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wo0pP TIL: Hitler created Volkswagen in 1937 known as Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH. Later that year, it was renamed simply Volkswagenwerk, or “The People’s Car Company.” The company was originally operated by the German Labor Front, a Nazi organization.
VBBb4 TIL: Between 1976 and 1977, Salvador Dalí signed 17,500 blank sheets of paper for tarot prints that had not yet been printed. This realization led to a huge increase in forgeries from printers who claimed to have used pre-signed paper for their "authorized" prints after Dali was bedridden.
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