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TIL a chicken once lived for 18 months without a head

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gMoby TIL In Japan you can hire actors to pose as short/longterm spouses,children,friends,etc. Ishii Yuichi was hired to pose as a girl's missing father by her mother for over 8 years without his "daughter" knowing.
oQrr TIL some animals like frogs and lizards have a third eye, a very small grey oval between their two regular eyes, which functions as a photoreceptor connected directly to the pineal gland to tell their brain when it is day or night while the regular eyes are closed
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