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TIL that Red-Green forms of colour blindness and more common than Blue-Yellow because the former comes from the x-chromozone pair, which in men is xy and thus men are more likely to have Red-Green colour blindness; Blue-Yellow's source is a chromozone pair 7 and thus not sex-based

Rm68 TIL After Fighter pilot Thomas G. Lanphier, Jr. flew the longest interception mission of WWII to shoot down and kill the Admiral responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor, he broke radio silence to tell everybody “That son of a bitch will not be dictating any peace terms in the White House”.
kOkP5 TIL On Black Friday 2014, Cards Against Humanity was taken off shelves and replaced with a “Bullshit” box, for $6. Inside? “Literal feces, from an actual bull”, they said. The move - a protest against the 'buy anything' culture of Black Friday - led to 30,000 boxes of shit being sold in 2 hours flat
OovZ6 TIL about the Gotthard Tunnel which had 9 deaths occur during construction, followed by the weirdest opening ceremony ever - satanic symbolism everywhere
pVvG TIL that Orthocarbonic Acid is called “Hitler’s Acid” because its molecular geometry resembles a swastika
rRmve TIL of a woman who has won the Lottery four times since 1993. She was outed as a PhD of Statistics from Standford University and had figured out the pseudo-number generator for the distribution of the winning tickets. She won a total of $17million, and has since moved to Las Vegas.