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TIL photography film was made with only Caucasian skin in mind and Kodak only really developed the technology to colour balance darker skin tone by chance- because of complaints over poor light calibration from makers of brown furniture.

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WkXaL TIL a 60-year-old American man with severe amnesia was blind for 9 months due not being able to afford cataract surgery. When a charity paid for it and he could see again, he was shocked to discover he was around 20 years older than he thought he was.
Wk6Jd TIL that the “pink hat man” is a 72 year old man who who owns Cub’s tickets and sits behind home plate but wears a pink hat so his wife knows that he is at the game and not cheating.
KY9JJ TIL the small town of Dalgety, population 252, was almost going to be Australia's capital, as it lead the first six-rounds of preferential voting during the election for a capital, only losing out on the final two rounds.
wLJ96 TIL Author Robert E. Howard imagined Conan the Barbarian and his people the Cimmerians as being the direct ancestors of Irish and Scottish people.
Wk6yo TIL that the Night's Watch cloaks from Game Of Thrones are made of 79$ Ikea rugs.