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TIL that depressed people cannot perceive color as well - the world literally turns grayer

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9wPY6 TIL about the Hotel du Lac in Tunis, Tunisia constructed in the 1970s which is an example of Brutalist architecture. The hotel has a cantilevered design resulting in a top floor double the length of the ground floor and has prompted comparisons with the sand crawler vehicle of the Star Wars films.
R7bQj TIL the phrase "eat the rich" is attributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who is reported to have once said "When the people have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich."
e0EdJ TIL Justin Timberlake didn’t sing the “cry me, cry me, cry me” ad-lib on the song ‘Cry Me a River’
yVvk8 TIL: It’s illegal in California to drive in a way meant to show-off or impress someone else
8kvK TIL Sleeping Beauty (in 1634) gets a sliver, falls apparently dead, is hidden by her father, found unconscious and raped by a king out hunting, gives birth to two children who wake her up, so the king burns his wife alive to be with her (after the wife tried to kill and eat the babies)