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TIL Humans have historically had a issue seeing the colour blue

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AD6Xn TIL One habit of intelligent humans is being easily annoyed by people around them, but saying nothing in order to avoid a meaningless argument.
b9XD7 TIL President Grover Cleveland found he had a tumor in his mouth, and it needed immediate attention. To avoid the public knowing, he went on a 4-day trip on a yacht to have it removed. It was done without leaving facial scars and the tumor is in a jar on display in a Philadelphia museum.
BylK TIL until 1990, homosexuals were banned from immigrating to the United States.
6EBKY TIL about the origin of the term “decimation”. It was a punishment in the Roman Army where soldiers were spilt into groups of 10, straws were drawn and whoever drew the short straw was clubbed, stabbed or stoned to death by the remaining 9. The first recorded instance of this is from 478 BC.
l7KgV TIL that zucchini can be toxic, there was at least one death of an elderly person, in 2015. In October 2023, a woman from Czechia ended up in hospital with severe poisoning symptoms after cooking zucchini from her garden