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TIL tennis balls used to be white until Sir David Attenborough realized they'd be hard to follow on color television so the sport created "optic yellow" balls.
TIL tennis balls used to be white until Sir David Attenborough realized they'd be hard to follow on color television so the sport created "optic yellow" balls.
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