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TIL that your pupils can expand by as much as 45% when looking at someone you love

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YYV7 TIL MIT found that the United States has enough geothermal resources to supply for at least 2,000 times its annual consumption of primary energy
YpQZW TIL For the past 45 million years tarsiers have inhabited rainforests around the world, but now they only exist on a few islands in the Philippines, Borneo and Indonesia. In Bohol, the Philippine Tarsier was a common sight in the southern part of the island until the 1960's
XEdrR TIL the blue planet used to be purple. 250 million years ago, the oceans lost all their oxygen and one of the only things to survive was a purple alga/bacteria which would have given the seas an irridescent violet hue. Geologists have found remnants of this purple bacteria embedded in ancient rock.
e404 TIL John Lasseter, one of the three founding fathers of Pixar, was fired from Disney for trying to create three dimensional cartoon images. Lucasfilm hired him promptly afterwards for being innovative. Disney would later buy both Lucasfilms and Pixar for billions of dollars.
PZ9Z TIL 1 in every 20,000 girls are born with their rectum, vagina, and urinary tract fused together into a a single common channel, called a persistent cloaca.