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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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D5wg TIL that in 1997, a UNICEF delegation determined that North Korean hospitals did not even have thermometers or other basic medical equipment.
WJoY TIL the scientific name for the American bison is bison bison…. and the scientific name for it’s subspecies (plains bison) is bison bison bison.
114P TIL: There’s a statue in Glasgow called the “Duke of Wellington” with a traffic cone on its head since 1980. The city removed it several times but a new one would appear in the night so they gave up and it now a permanent icon of the city.
VB5Wm TIL there is a World Championship for Microsoft Excel.
D1rZD TIL Evel Knievel, perhaps the best known daredevil, ruined his career when he attacked a man with a baseball bat due an unflattering book. The victim was knocked unconscious and needed major surgery to repair his arm.Evel only served 6 months in jail but lost all his endorsements and contracts.