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TIL When a squirrel feels it is being watched it may deceptively pretend to bury an object then hide the object in its mouth

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R7GZ8 TIL Blue eyes are not due to pigmentation, and actually appear blue due to their structure in the same way the sky does.
LQWLZ TIL that “The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)” by Alvin & the Chipmunks was the only Christmas song to ever top the Billboard Hot 100 until Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” did so 61 years later.
k6bm TIL James Doohan (Scotty from Star Trek) was in the Canadian military and on D-Day killed two snipers and was himself shot 6 times … by friendly fire.
X0pMX TIL: when Bob Dylan was touring Scotland in 1966. A waiter arrived at the hotel room they were staying at. Then shouted Fk him" and “you’re a fking traitor to folk music” and pulled out a knife. But he was disarmed by Dylan’s bodyguard.
d8rwQ TIL: Native Americans created a universal sign language that allowed 2/3 of all Indigenous tribes to communicate across most of North America, hundreds of years before Europeans invented a sign language of their own.