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TIL that goats have rectangular pupils

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obML TIL, there’s a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare” where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone.
kJVKe TIL Spain used to have festival where tradition was to throw a goat from the Church window.
4XmmR TIL that Tears for Fears: Everybody wants to Rule the World was inspired by Simple Minds: Waterfront (a mate of mine is in that video..somewhere)
prMG TIL that Brazil, the only country in the world that still produces the Volkswagen Bus, will stop production by the end of this year
69KGX TIL before Julius Caesar's reforms, the 355 day Roman year required a special month every few years to line the calendar back up with the seasons. The month was often enacted or cancelled for political reasons, so every year people outside Rome had to wait weeks to learn what the actual date was.