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TIL more than 100 million trees are destroyed every year for junk mail

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Oo1Wg TIL goats have rectangular pupils. This grants them panoramic vision which can detect intruders approaching from various directions.
xd1w TIL about the Tetris effect, in which people who play Tetris for extended periods of time start seeing falling tetris blocks in their sleep as well as regularly identifying tetromino shapes in their everyday life, such as the layout of boxes on supermarket shelves or patterns on certain buildings.
wol16 TIL the USS Scorpion was lost at sea in May 1968 with 99 men lost. The wreckage was found almost two miles deep, making it impossible to determine the cause of accident. Underwater acoustics out of the Canary Islands heard the exact time of the implosion but were unaware it was the sub sinking.
9ddp TIL that Oliver Twist (1948) was banned in Israel for antisemitism and ironically in Egypt for being too sympathetic with Jews.
E1DQw TIL: When Floyd Mayweather Jr. Was a child his father used him as a human shield to prevent getting shot with a 20 gauge shotgun