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TIL that South Carolina is the dumbest state in America.

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JYGRl TIL: Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national symbol, as he felt that eagles represented a "bad moral character" as they steal fish from hawks and were too lazy to catch fish themselves. He stated that turkeys native to America and a "bird of courage" as opposed to a "rank coward".
VVxk TIL horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal, have excellent day and night vision, but they have two-color, or dichromatic vision; their color vision is somewhat like red-green color blindness in humans, where certain colors, especially red and related colors, appear as a shade of green.
OWmY TIL Mr. Rogers always mentioned out loud that he was feeding his fish because a young blind viewer asked him to do so. She wanted to make sure the fish were OK.
mgKY TIL Adam Savage was once called by the FBI bomb squad because he left a voicemail on a wrong number about making a “thermal detonator”
9wrZ7 TIL there are officially no pets in the Vatican.