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TIL that the red shapes in the Frisian Flag are actually water-lily leaves

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PkeE TIL Rabbits can actually see whats behind them without turning their heads. They have nearly 360° panoramic vision, allowing them to detect predators from all directions. They can see everything behind them and only have a small blind-spot in front of their nose.
bYlQ TIL of Shavarsh Karapetyan who was a 17-time world champion finswimmer and heard that a bus crashed in the water. He went in the deep water and rescued 20 people from drowning. After 10 years he rescued more people from a burning hospital. He also carried the torch in the Winter Olympics of 2014.
VWEk TIL: Dr. Pepper was made to taste like the smell of a drug store
wo61M TIL about Oradour-sur-Glane, a French village where Nazi troops massacred its 643 inhabitants as collective punishment for Résistance activity. Women and children were burned alive in a church, while men were taken to barns, shot in the legs and set on fire as well.
pYaZ TIL that there is an actual psychological disease which confuses people to think they’re in a dream. Like in Inception when Cobb’s wife kills herself because of this confusion.