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TIL that blue eyes do not have blue pigmentation - they look blue for the same reason that the the sky looks blue

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oROxL TIL: Animals have different dialects or "languages" depending on their geographical and environmental area. They can even change their pitch, much like human accents. Studies have been done using dolphins, mole rats, and monkeys. Birds when moved from NZ to the UK lose their NZ "accent" or dialect.
nenOo TIL in 1913 John Rockefeller owned 2% of the US GDP, an amount that today would be worth over $409 billion and make him 3 times richer than Jeff Bezos
VBOlQ TIL the Philipp 1866 Copiales 3 manuscript is a cracked 260 year old code that concealed the arcane rituals of an ancient secret order, the Oculists - who were a group of ophthalmologists.
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K9bR TIL that the Dwarves in the Tolkien universe are supposed to represent Jewish people. Tolkien stated:“The Dwarves of course are quite obviously—wouldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic.”