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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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