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TIL that a Nature photographer, Kjell Bloch Sandved, curated a collection of butterfly and moth images with interesting patterns on their wings that resembled all 26 letters in the English alphabet, as well as the 10 single-digit numbers.

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wLokW TIL when most species of marine mammals are asleep, there is always one hemisphere of their brain that is awake. This allows dolphins, for example, to swim and surface to breathe when they are sleeping. They enjoy the benefits of sleep but still perform many of the same processes done when awake.
9Dmp TIL Chef Boy-Ar-Dee is spelled that way so that Americans could correctly pronounce “Boiardi.”
BMpx TIL Rats laugh when tickled
WkxVN TIL that since projectors cannot project the color black, they rely on an optical illusion using the darkness of a room to give the illusion of the color black.
yy0v TIL that when you look up at the blue sky and see white dots flying around, you’re actually seeing your own white blood cells