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

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8NAa TIL ‘peperoni’ is the Italian word for 'bell pepper’ and if you order a 'peperoni pizza’ in Italy, you will get a pizza with sliced bell peppers on it.
Lkdmm TIL: The Chicxulub Impact, the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, created a mega-tsunami that was over 330 feet tall. If the impact had struck the deep ocean rather than the shallow seas, the wave would have peaked at 2.9 MILES.
nWBMW TIL the lynching of Emmitt Till inspired The Twilight Zone
nWWbW TIL the Big Bang wasn’t actually an explosion that happened in the center of the universe, there is not even a center to the universe. It has happened and has been happening everywhere all at once.