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

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wDrJ TIL Jupiter is a “cosmic vacuum cleaner.” Its gravitational influence causes comets and asteroids to collide with it. The rate of impacts on Jupiter is about 2000-8000X higher than the rate on Earth. Without Jupiter, the probability of asteroid impacts with the inner planets would be much greater.
kO8yE TIL that U.S. Navy considered designing their ship bridges after Star Trek designs because they considered ideal for rapidly changing situations.
ADbwn TIL Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi painting sold at auction in 1958 for just £45, and re-sold in 2017 for $450,312,500.
Rpww TIL the pre-Meiji Japanese government differentiated believers and non-believers of Catholicism by making them step on pictures of the Virgin Mary and Christ. Those found guilty were often executed by being thrown into a volcano
XErOR TIL of Radivoke Lajic, a man in Bosnia whose house has been hit by meteorites 6 times. He thinks aliens are targeting him.