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TIL An ostrichs eye is bigger than its brain

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Y7p9G TIL the youngest sea is the Baltic Sea, at between 10,000 - 15,000 years old.
xVkW5 TIL that Vincent Price did the monologue for Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in one take.
OmQY TIL Beethoven won a sight reading piano competition by turning his sheet music upside down, playing it, then improvising on one of its themes for thirty minutes. His opponent, Daniel Steibelt, never returned to challenge him again.
10y7 TIL in 1910, when asked how much vacation time a worker should take annually, President Taft recommended 3 months
0dbap TIL when Japanese-American Norm Mineta was interned as a child, US authorities confiscated his baseball bat. Later elected to Congress, someone gifted him a $1500 Hank Aaron bat-- which he had to return, since it violated House rules on gifts. Said Mineta: "The damn government's taken my bat again."