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TIL goats have rectangular pupils which allow them to see 320 to 340 degrees around them

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X0JA6 TIL in 2012 an Oregon woman found a letter from a Chinese labor camp prisoner in a box of Halloween decorations she bought from Kmart. She publicized the letter. The man, who had been released in 2010, saw a news story about it and wrote another letter just for her, thanking her for doing that.
JlwQ TIL that people drink aloe vera juice because they believe it will boost their immune system, even though one of the main side effects is diarrhea.
p8Lr4 TIL Numbered musical notation is popular in China, making conventions to encode and decode music more accessible than in the West, as more Chinese can sight read it than standard notation. Indexing with numbers makes it possible to search music by melody, but it has never become popular in the West
JMg1 TIL Not only were the founding fathers against the idea of political parties, John Adams once said: “This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”
grXv7 TIL of Irish boxer Steve Collins, who employed unusual but successful mind games such as being apparently hypnotised during fights, and listening to headphones as his opponent’s ring music played.