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TIL that the Mantis Shrimp has one of the best eyesights in the animal kingdom. It’s hexnocular vision is so powerful that it sees six images at once, sees in 12 colors, and can polarize its own light. Scientists are now modeling its capabilities to detect cancer and internal injuries in humans.

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eQrn TIL During filming of Ant-Man Paul Rudd attempted to reinact the famous leg crossing scene from Basic Instinct to Michael Douglas. It didn’t go as planned and Michael said to Paul, “What are you a fucking pervert?”
4XDGb TIL that there is a poem written in 1936 by David Shulman called Washington Crossing the Delaware, a 14-line rhyming sonnet in which every line is an anagram of the title
neEXB TIL: Dwayne Johnson "aka: The Rock" began his acting and wrestling career after being cut from the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League. He would later say "Sometimes, your biggest dreams that don’t come true are the best things that never happened."
b9EBQ TIL that the fiancée of the future serial killer Paul Knowles visited a Psychic medium. The Medium warned her that her fiancée was a “dangerous man”, and she needs to leave him. She called off the wedding and cut off contact with Knowles
ZDwo TIL in 1945, a radar engineer named Percy Spencer was working at Ratheon. He stepped in front of a magnetron, a device that powers radars. He noticed a chocolate bar in his pocket had melted. Later that year, he filed a patent for the first microwave oven.