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TIL Chevy Chase’s real name is “Cornelius Crane Chase”

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VVxk TIL horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal, have excellent day and night vision, but they have two-color, or dichromatic vision; their color vision is somewhat like red-green color blindness in humans, where certain colors, especially red and related colors, appear as a shade of green.
R5VXl TIL That Slovenia ranks at the very top of the EU Member States in terms of the number of beekeepers per capita at 5 bee keepers per 1 thousand inhabitants.
J1nl4 TIL while filming “Dirty Dancing” in Oct 1984, the Virginian cold weather caused the temperatures to drop to 40 °F (4 °C) during the swimming scene. Jennifer Grey later described the water as “horrifically cold”, and said she might not have gone into the lake, except that she was “young and hungry.”
epwmL TIL that John Lennon wanted Hitler, Jesus and Gandhi on the cover of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. For religious and moral reasons, that did not occur.
VVgZ TIL that because of Japan’s increasing senior citizen population, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.