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TIL viruses like ebola can change your eye color

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jNVvX TIL that in Labyrinth, David Bowie's crystal ball spinning was actually performed by a professional juggler Michael Moschen, who stood behind him with his arms through his cloak.
1ab57 TIL: An autonomous killer robot is hunting coral eating starfish at the great barrier reef.
PYD7E TIL that beached whales can die by their skeleton collapsing under their own weight, causing the ribs to compress and subsequent asphyxiation
WkZV8 TIL that humans are born with over 300 bones which fuse together to make roughly 206 bones once you reach adulthood
ADn9o TIL that Henry George's treatise on economics "Progress and Poverty", which seeks to explain why poverty exists even within advanced and wealthy societies, sold over 3 million copies in the first 10 years after its publication, making it more popular than every book in the 1890s except for the Bible