Today I learned

TIL that feminist icon Gloria Steinem spent a month as a Playboy Bunny

A Bunny's Tale - Wikipedia

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TIL why we can only see in grayscale in dim light

The Human Eyes Are Color Blind At Night: Two Views Of The Milky Way - PMC

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TIL During the 6th Wargrave Nursery Gaint Vegetable Weigh-off, the heaviest pumpkin was record to weigh 2,819.3 pounds while the stem to blossom girth was 649.8 cm (255.8 inches). The pumpkin was grown by two brothers, Ian and Stuart Paton, from Lymington, Hampshire, UK. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-giant-pumpkin-world-record-just-crept-closer-to-3000-pounds-heres-how-science-sweat-and-soul-crush-keep-growers-reaching-for-the-heaviest-fruit-possible-180987563/ #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1qy70b3/til_during_the_6th_wargrave_nursery_gaint/