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TIL that beavers have transparent eyelids to see underwater.

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4lGo TIL 1989 Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke gave a speech allowing Chinese People to come to Australia following the Tiananmen Square Massacre, without telling the Australian government.
kwEe TIL Freddie Mercury got a degree in art and graphic design and eventually used his skill to design the Queen logo, aka the Queen Crest
QNRad TIL: The pharmaceutical companies median markup price markup for cancer therapies ranged from 118.4% to 633.6% in the US
OwD1 TIL that in response to a “catastrophic emergency,” the United States government can be suspended and replaced with a single, combined branch “coordinated” by the President, indefinitely.
4kMjN TIL about the Zanclean flood: 5.33 Mya the dried-up Mediterranean Sea completely refilled within months, after being cut-off from the Atlantic for 630,000 years (Messinian salinity crisis). The waters broke through the Strait of Gibraltar at 1,000x the rate of the Amazon!