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TIL Owls don't have eyeballs. They have eye tubes.

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404o TIL When General Motors unveiled the Camaro name in 1966, automotive press asked Chevrolet product managers, “What is a Camaro?” and were told it was “a small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs.”
Ajwx TIL that for the first 6 years of Pavarotti’s career, he couldn’t get paid singing roles and had to work as an elementary school teacher and insurance salesman to support himself.
rRW7y TIL that in the 1870s margarine, the economical rival to butter, was mandated in New Hampshire to be dyed pink in order to help dairy farmers. The reasoning: nobody would buy pink margarine.
6nn7 TIL of Bill Morgan who, after being deemed clinically dead for 14 minutes from suffering a heart attack, had won the lottery soon after. When the local news approached him to publish his story, Morgan miraculously won the lottery yet again when filming a reenactment of him with a scratchcard
gMmlD TIL the tallest wave ever recorded reached 524m when it struck land. This is the height of building 1 of the World Trade Center (including the antenna)