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8ekw4 TIL that newborns can sleep up to 16-17 hours a day, but in short bursts.
4J7N TIL Cambyses II of Persia used cats to fight a battle. Against the Egyptians in the battle of Pelusium in 525 BC he ordered his men to paint cats on their shields and brought 100’s of cats to his front lines. The Egyptian archers refused to fire on the cats as injuring one was punishable by death.
m1v5v TIL blue whales appear 1.33 times larger than their true size because of refraction of light in water.
An9g TIL that when people without access to mirrors (or clear water in which to view their reflections) are first exposed to them, their reaction tends to be very negative.
VMRXG TIL in 1967, when the first black mayor of Washington D.C. sent his first budget to the House Committee on District of Columbia, chairman John L. McMillan of South Carolina responded by sending back a truck full of watermelons.