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TIL Cheetah's Black Tear Marks on Their Face Help Draw Sunlight Away from Their Eyes

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OGkN6 TIL the first movie about the sinking of the Titanic premiered only 31 days after she sank, and was written by an actress who survived the sinking, who also starred in it. She later had a nervous breakdown and never acted again.
MeWo0 TIL that a 2019 study found human empathy towards other animal species decreased in line with the amount of time since our evolutionary paths diverged
LEAr TIL that Stevie Wonder was in a near fatal car crash that left him in a coma. Doctors could not get him to respond to any external stimuli. After four days, his tour director sang the melody of “Higher Ground” into the singer’s ear, and Wonder responded by moving his fingers in time with the song.
XoGP TIL: There is a waterfall that empties into an underground river in Minnesota. The outlet has never been discovered.
GKPg TIL that, similar to the ‘Freedom Fries’ fiasco near the beginning of the war in Iraq, US citizens referred to sauerkraut as “Liberty Cabbage” near the beginning of WWII.