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TIL about Visual Snow Syndrome, where individuals will see flickering coloured, clear, white, or black dots across their vision at all times.

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j5dX TIL Swearing while playing NBA2K14 with a kinect will result in a technical foul, even when playing offline
yQE6M TIL gorillas are mostly peaceful giants, preferring acts of intimidation and diplomacy over full on violence even with rivals. There have only been a handful of human attacks, and an even smaller number of fatal attacks, mostly when they perceived humans as a threat and warnings were ignored.
61yZ TIL that in 400 BC Persian engineers could store ice, in the desert, in the middle of summer.
rNaNW TIL about Chesterton’s Fence- the rule of thumb that says one shouldn’t alter, destroy, or remove something established and present- whether a physical object or structure, or something more abstract like laws, rules, and traditions- without first understanding why it’s there in the first place.