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TIL that Reindeer are the only mammals that can see ultraviolet light.

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awknb TIL Buster Keaton was an international mega silent movie star, but broke down after sound movies took over. He became an alcoholic and was institutionalized in a mental ward but escaped his strait jacket using techniques he learned from Houdini. He then married his nurse but had no memory of it.
4XmlJ TIL: Villains in movies are not allowed to use Apple products. You can predict who the villain is in a movie by whether they use or don't use an iPhone/Mac.
wLPK8 TIL of Herostratus, a 4th century BC Greek arsonist who burned down the Temple of Artemis, considered one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world. He said he had done it to immortalise his name. He was executed him and a law was passed forbidding anyone from saying his name, under penalty of death.
Lw4r TIL the Nazis considered Native Americans to be part of the Aryan race.
aw76L TIL that the clocks in microwaves and stoves use the frequency of the power grid to keep time instead of quartz crystals. As the frequency can fluctuate, this explains why they keep poor time.