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TIL: Despite Octopi and Squid being colorblind, they can see color by changing the shape of their pupils to accept specific wavelengths

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WQAd TIL that Pixar accidentally deleted Toy Story 2 off their servers. The project was saved by an employee who had the data at her home.
VBGPZ TIL Nauru has the highest obesity rate in the world (94.5% overweight, 71.7% obese), caused by the rapid adoption of Western diets after the phosphate mining boom. Traditional diets of fresh fish and vegetables were replaced by processed foods—with devastating health effects.
VMeOp TIL that the majority of modern British and Irish are descended from the people who first settled the islands after the Ice Age. All the later invasions by Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans did little to change the islanders’ DNA.
5Y1D TIL Natalie Portman helped with the writing of “The Social Network” by providing inside information about the social life at Harvard because she was a Harvard student at the time Facebook first appeared there. The lines “Who was the movie star?”, “Does it matter?” in the movie refers to her.