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TIL that the mysterious squiggly things floating in our eyes are called “floaters”. They are shadows cast on our retina by small strands of protein inside our eyes.

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grwQ8 TIL in 2016 a hijacked plane was forced to land at an airport during the filming of a movie about a plane hijacking. The real footage was then used in the movie
oROnE TIL the song Hound Dog by Elvis Presley was not originally by Elvis. The original performer of the song was Big Mama Thornton, a blues and R&B singer who recorded it in 1952, 4 years before Elvis recorded it
BgKby TIL It’s not the heat that gets ya. It’s the humidity.
rRPje TIL Maserati worked hard and failed to construct a V16 town car for Benito Mussolini before Ferry Porsche of Volkswagen built one for Adolf Hitler
9wMPr TIL that a consumer reports analysis in 2014 confirmed that 656 rice products had worrisome levels of arsenic exposure from brown and white rice, and that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set a limit for total arsenic consumption in drinking water, but no such limits for food/other beverages