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TIL a planet shaped like a donut is theoretically possible

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pkL8 TIL Wes Craven designed Freddy Krueger’s striped sweater after reading in Scientific American that the human eye has difficulty recognizing those particular shades of red and green side by side. Therefore, looking at it is subliminally unsettling.
awRrN TIL Almost 500 years ago, an African man Yasuke arrived in Japan. He would go on to become the first foreign-born man to achieve the status of a samurai warrior and the only black person to achieve this status.
RdVQ TIL That in 1983, an Israeli F-15 was able to be landed after a mid-air collision, which destroyed its right wing. After the incident, the F-15’s producers, McDonnell Douglas affirmed that it was impossible for such a landing to happen, but were corrected after receiving the photos of the event.
lo81G TIL about Priceville. A small community founded in the 1800s by African-Americans not far north from what is now Toronto. It was mysteriously emptied of its black residents, its cemetery bulldozed, and the records of interracial marriages that occured there covered up.
jWvQ TIL An Ottoman Sultan sent his navy to rescue Jews expelled from Spain in 1492