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TIL Humans used to have 3 eyelids. The pink bit in the corner of your eye is what remains!

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M75NB TIL that the Final Ballroom Dance in Beauty and the Beast (1991) reuses animation straight from Sleeping Beauty (1959). Disney insisted that it was done not to save money, but to save time.
X0p46 TIL of operation Abscam: an FBI sting operation in the late 70s which resulted in the resignation of 1 US senator and 5 US congressmen and the expulsion of a 6th congressman for corruption. Congress made it impossible for the FBI to run similar sting ops in the future (Civiletti Guidelines, 1981)
e0PKg TIL that when Eric Clapton fell in with George Harrison's then wife (who Clapton would also later go on to marry), he challenged Harrison to a guitar dual to decide who should be with her. Their guitar battle went on for 2 hours.
grKvA TIL that bed bugs were first mentioned in ancient Greece as early as 400 BC, and later by Aristotle. Bean leaves have been used historically to trap bedbugs in houses in Eastern Europe. The trichomes on the bean leaves capture the insects by impaling their feet. The leaves are then destroyed.
vPXbr TIL that Apocephalus borealis, a parasitoid fly also known as the "zombie fly", lays its eggs in honeybees, bumblebees and paper wasps; the hosts - sometimes referred to as "zombees" - show behavioral changes of unclear purpose.