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TIL it’s not the alcohol that burns your throat when taking a shot, it’s the ethanol making your heat receptors perceive your own body temperature as burning hot

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e0e7b TIL that reindeer are the only mammals that can see ultraviolet light. This means that they can easily tell the difference between white fur and snow because white fur has much higher contrast. It helps them discover predators early in snowy landscapes.
v1QMr Today I learned that Al Yankovich is actually 1/4 Slovene 1/4 Croat not 1/2 serb!
GYGQ TIL NASA set out to disprove the claims of the “Mayan Apocolypse”, and did.
PYR6e TIL that despite not existing for the past 30 years, the Soviet Union still holds the most Olympic gold medals for wrestling.
wL4aE TIL that crocodilians and birds have a unidirectional lung flow (or circulatory lungs), as distinct from the bellows-type (or tidal flow) lungs found in most other animals.