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TIL Blue whales are colourblind and don't know they themselves are blue.

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BaMK TIL Walt Disney received one full-size Oscar for Snow White—as well as seven miniature ones
BjLK TIL that, due to a wartime shortage of copper, the Manhattan Project borrowed almost 15,000 tons of silver from the US Treasury to make wiring for the electromagnets in isotope-separating mass spectrometers. The wire, worth over a billion dollars at the time, was removed and returned after the war.
YpBar TIL that in 1928, New York Governor Al Smith ran for president with the slogan, "Make your wet dreams come true," advertising his opposition to prohibition.
OY0g Today I learned that you are responsible for your dog’s illegal and nefarious actions but cats are considered free spirits by the law so you and they can do whatever you want.
PKyE TIL that Ben Affleck was as disappointed by Daredevil as the rest of us, calling it the only movie he actually regrets.