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TIL that people with depression tend to see the world in less saturated colors due to changes in the retina’s response to contrast.

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d7aZ TIL a woman won $1.3 million lottery.She hid it from her husband and immediately divorced him to avoid giving him half. He found out and sued. Due a Family Code statute that penalizes spouses for falsifying data about their property during divorce, judge ordered her to give him 100% of the winnings.
R7pV7 TIL that if you're seated in the rear of a modern jumbo jet, the walk to your seat is longer than the Wright Brothers' 120 ft first flight.
8e8pG TIL former US president Jimmy Carter and Motown Records founder Berry Gordy are related by way of their great-grandfather James Thomas Gordy.
p8y6e TIL: There is a unit of sound called a "bel". A decibel (dB) is 1/10 of it.
PYJGJ TIL that the girl that inspired the worldwide hit song, 'The Girl from Ipanema' in the mid-1960s was Heloisa Pinta. Now 74 years of age, she was a Brazilian Playboy Playmate in 1987 and again in 2003.