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TIL that occasionally people who are born without a lens in their eye can see some of the Ultra-Violet spectrum.

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wLNBY TIL in 559 BC a chinese prisoner was sentenced to death by being flown off the top of a large tower attached to a kite. He survived the flight, and claimed the record of the highest jump survived by a person in the process. He was later starved to death in prison.
gdmD TIL humans can have black irises, and red is the most rare of eye colors.
8eRX4 TIL Female Bark lice have spined penises they use to mate with unwilling partners for up to 70 hours
XEZpD TIL Vlad the Impaler once repelled an attempted Ottoman invasion by making a forest of wooden stakes piled high with Ottoman corpses. According to Chalkokondyles, a contemporary Greek historian, there were over 20,000 people in his "Forest of the Dead"
RP0l TIL in the last years of her life, Rosa Parks became too ill to manage her own financial affairs. When her rent became delinquent, her apartment’s ownership company announced they would let her live rent free in the building for the remainder of her life.