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TIL most animals can see UV light — humans being blind to it is the exception not the rule.

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egoE TIL German U-Boat 1206 was 8 days into its 1st tour when the Commander had a problem working the new type of toilet. The engineer called to help opened a wrong valve, flooding the battery compartment, causing release of Chlorine gas. Forced to surface, they were quickly spotted & captured by Allies.
Lkm5P TIL Robert De Niro's line 'You talkin' to me?' in Taxi Driver wasn't in the script. It was freestyled by De Niro.
xVP5k TIL the Chicago Tunnel Company once sold naturally cool tunnel air to theaters above the tunnels as an early form of air conditioning
e0G5L TIL of Arthur Stillwell, a young Kansas City entrepreneur who built over 3000 miles of railroad, and founded over 40 towns, and developed a way to to ship live oysters by train, all because the voices in his head told him to.
eRKg TIL Oliver Reed died aged 61 of a heart attack after beating 5 Royal Navy sailors at arm-wrestling in a bar in Malta. He had consumed 3 bottles of Captain Morgan Jamaica Rum, 8 bottles of German beer, and several doubles of Famous Grouse whiskey…All while on his LUNCH BREAK from filming Gladiator.