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TIL that owls have long necks under all their feathers

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ADRMl TIL Eleven and Twelve do not follow the teen pattern because they come from Old English terms that mean "one left after ten" and "two left after ten," or "ain-lif" and "twa-lif," due to the fact that these numbers were used commonly, unlike the other teens, and therefore developed much earlier.
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xWDw TIL that H.R. Giger refused to give the xenomorphs from Alien eyes because “It’s scarier if you don’t know where they’re looking”.