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TIL that bovines (cows/bulls) can't see the color red.

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D1P8v TIL that biologists went to Bikini Atoll a year after the nuclear tests, caught a fish, held it up to photograph paper, and took an x-ray image using rays coming from inside the fish.
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R5x98 TIL, in 1976 alone, the Indian government sterilized 6.2 million men
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