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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.

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W7OPB TIL that black people were only allowed to eat vanilla ice cream on July 4th, so butter pecan was created as an alternative.
E1w5p TIL Fergie, the Black Eyed Peas frontwoman, sent Alanis Morissette a butt-shaped cake after being impressed by her cover version and video of My Humps.
DVLD TIL in WWII the Germans used “anti-officer crooked picture bombs”: They left paintings on the wall, skewed to the side and rigged to explode when straightened.
BbWr TIL it’s illegal to use hormones in turkey (or other poultry and pork) so “hormone free” turkeys are not any different than a regular one
dDElr TIL that there are over two dozen universities in the U.S. that have their own nuclear reactors.