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TIL that starfish can see with compound eyes at the ends of their arms

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XEROj TIL that Inuit in northern Greenland were using iron blades for centuries without knowledge of metallurgy. They made them by breaking pieces off of a huge iron meteorite and shaping them with heavy stones. They built their settlements close to the meteorite and used its iron for generations.
R7458 TIL: Russia had another nuclear disaster, almost as bad as Chernobyl that was kept a lot more secret. A reporter trying to get compensation for victims had to flee the country.
ox6r TIL that the largest insect, the giant sea scorpion, lived some 400 million years ago and measured around 8 feet.
Gxb7 TIL that a small population of Mammoths survived on the Wrangel Island until 1650 BC, about 900 years after the construction of The Great Pyramid of Giza were completed.
Br1pW TIL that the reason the Colorado Rockies mascot is a triceratops is because a dinosaur rib bone was unearthed during the stadium’s excavation