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TIL viruses like ebola can change your eye color

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XPPj TIL a church group once presented Thomas Jefferson with a 4-foot-wide, 1,230-lb wheel of cheese to thank him for championing religious liberty. He had a policy against accepting gifts and paid $200 for it.
QJDjp TIL "Seinfeld" scrapped a claymation episode (that included Kramer with a pencil stuck in his eye) because "Home Improvement" did something similar. It was Jerry's biggest regret of the show.
94RB TIL that cheetahs were almost wiped out by the last ice-age, and all modern cheetahs are descended from a small portion of the surviving cats that interbred to maintain their species. Because of this, cheetahs are practically genetic clones of one another.
P1RG TIL there is a desert spider that builds a blanket from its silk and sand, then burrows into the ground, and hides itself in the burrow with said blanket as a cover. It kills unsuspecting prey by trapping it in the silk blanket and then heating it alive against the scorching sand.
16WB4 TIL that artificial banana flavoring isn't based on a species of banana that got wiped out, but instead uses Isoamyl acetate to replicate the flavor, which is only part of what gives bananas their distinctive taste.