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TIL The fossil record tells us nothing about how sightless animals first came to see the world.

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a8A0J TIL about a mass-produced 28-cylinder radial piston engine that was created during WWII and were made by hand before computer aided design or advanced 5-axis milling machines. It sported 71.5L outputting roughly 4,300 hp (3,200 kW)
Me1g8 TIL that a study found that Internet trolls tended to have personality traits related to sadism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism, and that the link between trolling and sadism was the strongest out of all three traits.
vPwPr TIL that there is a sound installation in the Namibian desert that is continually playing a loop of Africa by Toto.
QJlda TIL Southern California Edison plans to bury 3.6 million pounds of lethal radioactive waste at the closed San Onofre nuclear power plant, about 100 feet from the ocean and just a few feet above the water table.
worW6 TIL Koala bears can get Chlamydia!