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TIL hammer head sharks have a 360-degree vision in the vertical plane, meaning they can see above and below them at all times.

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ngl9 TIL Vlad the Impaler once asked a noble man if the smell of the impaled corpses bothered him. The man said yes, so Vlad had him impaled on a higher stake to the ‘smell wouldn’t bother him’.
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