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TIL 1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some form of color vision deficiency. Test yourself!

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5V17n TIL the character Sabrina the Teenage Witch was originally created in 1962 as a part of the Archie comics series.
b9l1Q TIL of the 1948 Donora Death Fog, where a thick toxic smog sickened 7000 people and killed 20 in Donora, PA. The smog originated from a U.S. Steel plant, but they never accepted responsibility.
R5dBj TIL that modern nuclear submarines are so well camouflaged that in 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missile submarines collided by chance in the Atlantic Ocean. They were moving so slowly that they couldn't have detected each other just a few feet apart.
vPe1B TIL Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington was approached by the label about building a whole new project all around him, whereas he told them to “go fuck themselves”
ZdYo TIL Flight recorders (Black boxes) from military planes float. From commercial planes? they Sink.