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TIL Tomorrow is the last day Saturday morning cartoons will be aired on broadcast television in America

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9YgEr TIL Red lenses binoculars were developed for hunting purpose. Hunting binoculars are coated in a way that makes the prey appear distinct in foliage and it does the job by blocking out red and making other colours prominent
4X5Lo TIL dogs are perfectly capable of digesting starches despite being descendants of "carnivorous" wolves. Even though they share most of their genetics, modern dogs carry 22 copies of a gene that codes for an enzyme that breaks down starches, while wolves only carry 2 copies of it.
0dy1y TIL Unlike most bivalves, scallops possess up to 200 small eyes along the edge of their mantles. These eyes utilize a concave, parabolic mirror of guanine crystals to focus light, allowing scallops to detect movement and changes in light, aiding in predator detection.
neex9 TIL Ladybugs can bite. They have mandibles and their bites will pinch/sting and often result in a raised red bump that may hurt for a few days.
JY4Vk TIL that Samuel Downing was the last surviving Revolutionary War veteran and only one to be photographed at the age of 102 in 1864.