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TIL: David Bowie didn’t have two different coloured eyes, and that it was just a result of an injury that damaged his pupil as a child.

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o9mr TIL The publisher of Penthouse magazine started Omni magazine “to make science just as popular as naked ladies.”
epKLn TIL it’s illegal for civilians to wear camouflage in 11 countries, including Jamaica, Barbados, and Zimbabwe, to prevent them from being mistaken for military personnel or law enforcement.
W7YNX TIL Ketchup has to be a certain weight to be considered “Fancy”.
N7o4b TIL Lucille Ball was so frightened of birds in the house that she refused to stay in hotels that had pictures of birds and tore down expensive Japanese wallpaper in her house that had birds in its design. Her fear of birds dates to when her father died shortly after a bird flew into the family home.
b6ZR4 TIL of the Order of Malta Passport. It's the rarest passport in the world and is only issued to a few hundred people.