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TIL that the US is on 43rd place on freedom of press

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N7mm6 TIL that the central part of a pepper that holds the seeds is called the placenta. Ew.
GYek1 TIL that "555-nanometer wavelength green" (which is similar to the shade of green used in "green screens") is the most visible color because it stimulates the most cones in the eye.
wojAP TIL that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the two largest center's of Christian population in Japan during WWII. The atomic bombing in Nagasaki killed 66% of the Christians in the city.
Bywd TIL when JAL Flight 2 landed in San Francisco Bay short of the runway, captain Kohei Asoh told investigators, “As you Americans say, I fucked up.” Today the “Asoh defense” is hailed by corporate strategists as one of the most effective public relations strategies.
R5lW1 TIL a link between testosterone and baldness was first discovered in a 1940s era study of mental hospital patients who were castrated and later injected with testosterone. These observations are now credited with helping to produce some of our modern treatments for male pattern baldness.