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TIL that some people, after eye surgeries where the cornea is remover, are able to see ultraviolet light-a part of the spectrum not normally visible. Monet, for example, painted with more blues after his op (at the age of 82!) because he could now see uv light bouncing off his beloved flowers.

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VBWD4 TIL Ash Ketchum only caught 57 unique individual Pokémon over the course of the series, roughly 7% of the Pokémon available to him.
kJgYW TIL Lumbar hyperlordosis (also known as anterior pelvic tilt) has a noticeable impact on the height of individuals with this medical issue, a height loss of 0.5–2.5 inches (1.27–6.35 centimeters) is common.
P5rJ TIL Marvel Comics created a superhero, Blue Ear, just for a 4 year old boy who was uncomfortable wearing his prescribed hearing aids. The boy told his mom “Superheroes don’t wear hearing aids” so Marvel created one.
0dyBv TIL that Zack Snyder pitched to Warner Bros a 300 spin-off about Alexander the Great’s homosexual relationship with his general Hephastion, and they found it a little too wild
R9X7 TIL The President’s speech in Independence Day was filmed on 6 August 1995 in front of an old aeroplane hangar. The hangar once housed the Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima exactly 50 years earlier on 6 August 1945.