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TIL Margo Robbie learned to hold her breath for 5 minutes for Suicide Squad.

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0wXZj TIL Siamese cats developed crossed eyes naturally to compensate for a genetic flaw in their eye structure where the left retina tilts right and the right retina tilts left. Looking straight ahead, it sees two different images. Crossing its eyes places the retinas in line to see more clearly.
QNxRe TIL British army tanks have a pair of eyes painted on them. A Chinese businessman insisted on this when he gave money for a tank during WW1. He said; "No got eyes, how can see? No can see, how can save? No can save, how can chop chop?" The 'Chinese Eye' is now a long standing tradition.
gDJA TIL the Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire. The institution is teaching since 1096.
EXxw TIL it’s possible to be declared brain-dead falsely because most physicians look at the brain stem, which controls heart and lung functions, but not the cortex, which coordinates consciousness
jweR TIL Americans “overreport” their church attendance in polls, while diaries of actual behavior show attendance more in line with several European countries.