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TIL that beavers have transparent eyelids so they can see when they’re underwater.

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dDawr TIL that Kurt Cobain trolled the attendees at a concert by playing the opening chords to “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, but never actually performing the entire song, after misogynistic chants were thrown at an all-female band, Calamity Jane, earlier in the show.
0dvnA TIL researchers at John Hopkins thought they'd discovered a medical breakthrough when they found a special metabolite in the urine of schizophrenic patients that nobody else had. Eventually, someone realized that ward was simply being served a different brand of coffee.
vPEB7 TIL that around 20.000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Maximum, the sea level was about 410ft (125m) lower than today and permanent summer ice covered 25% of the Earth’s land surface.
69OQZ TIL there’s an Android game called “Send Me to Heaven” where the objective is to throw your phone as high as possible and catch it, with the app measuring height using the device’s accelerometer. Apple banned it from the App Store for encouraging users to damage their phones.
OEo7 TIL that due to various laws that prevent any sex offender from living close to children an entire town was built exclusively for offenders in Florida.