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TIL that some animals have a ‘third eye’ part of the pineal gland that helps regulate circadian rhythms

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8a71P TIL That the term ‘antisocial’ is very commonly misused, and actually means to be violently against society and the rules imposed upon it, whereas the term for just being shut off/introverted is ‘asocial’.
yV5e TIL that Bikini Bottom from Spongebob is actually at the bottom of the lagoon at Bikini Atoll, the famous U.S. atomic bomb testing site.
xA61 TIL the rat poison/life saving human medication Coumadin was discovered after cows were observed eating clover and then bleeding to death.
x6bgD TIL that during the Jonestown Massacre, many of the 900 cult followers refused to drink or administer the poisoned Flavoure-Aid to their children. And so they were just killed. Either shot in the head or poisoned by being injected with the cyanide.
RMDj TIL in 1956 Soviets proposed a joint project to build a dam across Bering Strait in order to warm the Arctic Ocean but it wasn’t found practicable by the US