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TIL David Bowie turned down knighthood

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d0jQ TIL When a frog swallows its prey, it blinks, which pushes its eyeballs down on top of the mouth to help push the food down its throat.
go1L TIL Bald Eagles are so named because “balde” is an Old English word meaning “white.”
1LvD TIL Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa’s son, is being sued by his father’s estate in a trademark dispute for using the Zappa name.
xoMB TIL that when a Hun leader died warriors would slash their cheeks to “cry blood” in mourning.
0Pxv TIL in 2012, the parents of a teenage girl found out that their daughter was pregnant because Target’s internal computers had tracked their daughter’s purchases, concluded that she was pregnant and began sending her coupons geared towards pregnancy items