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TIL Thai fisherman have figured out a way to adapt their eyes to see clearly underwater without the aid of goggles or swim masks.

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oBZ7L TIL most Germans sing "Happy Birthday" in English but with a German accent, rather than singing it in German
5DaP TIL Jim Rice, of the Boston Red Sox, rushed into the stands in 1982 to help a young boy who had been struck in the head by a line drive. Rice carried the boy onto the field, through the Red Sox dugout and into the clubhouse, where the young boy could be treated by the team’s medical staff.
XQDE TIL a pig named Lulu saved her owner’s life while the woman was having a heart attack. The pig heard the cries of pain, forced her way out of the yard, ran into the road and ‘played dead’ to stop the traffic. A driver stopped, the pig led him to the trailer, he heard the woman and called 911.
oBPPA TIL an astronomer was frightened by the jumping spiders on her ceiling, but after she discovered that they were capable of seeing the moon, she said “They can see the moon just like me! I can't kill them now that I know that.”
QNJd9 TIL that the Pentagon still runs many of their computers with Windows 95