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TIL that horses and sheeps with horizontal pupils can rotate their eyeballs so as to keep their horizontal pupils parallel to the ground, which helps them identify predators

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VMjRm TIL about the Salt Witch of the Nebraska Plains. Indians maintained that a salt column was under the custody of the Salt Witch, and when they went there to gather salt they would beat the ground with clubs, believing that each blow fell upon her person and kept her from working other evil.
BgYaW TIL Theodore John Kaczynski (UNABOMBER and Author of Industrial Society and Its Future) wrote and published three additional books, and a short story, while incarcerated at ADX Florence. Each of these books expanded on anti-technology sentiment of his manifesto and his new concerns for the future.
b6VZ4 TIL The classic scene in The Seven Year Itch, where Marilyn Monroe's dress is lifted up by the air from a subway grate, was originally filmed on location in New York City, but over 2,000 spectators on the street yell every time her skirt went up. So, it was reshot in California at 20th Century Fox
XEowr TIL that in 2012 scientists at the Hadron Collider formed a quark-gluon plasma and subsequently recorded the hottest temperature created by man, 5.5 trillion degrees celsius.
9YgGX TIL that the song "Cool, Cool, Considerate Men" was cut from the original film version of 1776 by producer Jack Warner at the request of Richard Nixon, who thought it insulted conservatives, against the director's wishes. Decades later, a cut was made that added the song back in.