This week I learned the word pink used to mean yellow, and more
Fun and interesting facts from around the web


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- Pink used to be yellow (no, really) (Mental Floss)
- Brain 'rewires' itself to enhance other senses in blind people (ScienceDaily)
- Vision, not limbs, led fist onto land 385 million years ago (Northwestern Now)
- Jane Austen faked her own marriage twice (AFP)
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Lauren Hansen produces The Week’s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.
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