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TIL trees have eyes on their southern side.

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xAaB TIL Microsoft makes more money from Samsung than from Skype, Windows phone, and XBOX combined
0weVR TIL spiral staircases in medieval castles were deliberately made clockwise because it diminished the ability of attackers to properly swing their swords, since right-handed fighters would have had to to contend with the walls while making their striking motions.
b9e7 TIL that many people have experienced “cryptomnesia”, which is what happens when you think you’ve come up with something original, such as an idea or a joke, but it was actually something you’d seen before and forgotten about.
4keX6 TIL: Malaysia is actually a monarchy, always though it was a republic
Me1yA TIL: Charles Joseph Bonaparte, the great-nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, lived in Maryland and served in the cabinet of President Theodore Roosevelt. He created the FBI.