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TIL that there are “new” colors such as blue-yellow and red-green that can’t normally be perceived.

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E1vgw TIL that Teddy Roosevelt took a break from the presidency to go camping with John Muir for four days. They explored without any supervision/security. Roosevelt was so inspired by the trip that it eventually led to the creation of the National Park Service.
nN4W TIL that Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth, castrated himself with a pair of scissors so he wouldn’t be tempted by prositutes
VnGZ TIL that Julius Caesar suffered from chronic diarrhea. This prevented him from rising to greet the senate, which was deeply insulting to them and provoked his assassination.
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d8o0K TIL about pinball prohibition, pinball was banned in most major cities from the early 1940s to the mid 1970s because it was considered a game of chance and therefore gambling.