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TIL that humans have the highest daytime visual acuity of any mammal, and among the highest of any animal (some birds of prey have much better). However, we have relatively poor night vision.

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1RoP TIL that in 1924, chess player and Russian world champion Richard Réti played 29 blindfold chess games simultaneously, then forgot his briefcase at the event when he left.
rwjo TIL In Back to the Future the actress who played Jennifer couldn’t return for Part II due to her mother getting sick. This meant that the closing scene of Part I had to be re-shot with the new actress. They managed to re-film it with a near shot-for-shot match of the original.
eQok TIL An underage drunk girl at Chilliest 2015 got herself out of a ticket by winning a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. The 3 police officers let the girl go after she beat scissors with rock but they ended up getting in trouble when witnesses posted Vines and the videos went viral.
Vv5Z TIL Pennsylvania has a region known as the “Potato Chip Belt” where Herr’s, Utz, Martin’s, Bon Ton, Bickels’, and Snyder’s of Hanover call home.
ANWlw TIL the B-24 'Hot Stuff' was the first heavy bomber to complete 25 missions in Europe during WWII. However, after a crash on the way home killed 14 of the 15 onboard, the USAAF celebrated the B-17 'Memphis Belle' as the first bomber to reach 25 completed missions