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TIL: Angkor Wat was neither ancient nor forgotten; it was built starting in the 12th century and remained a pilgrimage site after being (mostly) abandoned

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Y7EJA TIL that your eyes reveal if you’re a predator or prey. Horizontal pupils are for prey (goats!), vertical pupils are for small predators (cats!), and round pupils are for tall predators (us!).
ZD4Y TIL that Snopes, wanting to stress that people shouldn’t believe everything they read, created a few entries with myths they made up and marked them “true”. Tv channel TLC ran an urban legends show that on one episode said something to be true. That something was one of the myths created by Snopes.
Kwg4 TIL that Rupert Grint’s first ambition was to be an “Ice Cream Man” and bought an ice cream truck with his Harry Potter money
bQj0 TIL Quaker Oats promoted their cereal in 1955 by giving away 1 square inch of land in Canada in each box sold. In the end, it totaled up to 19 acres
neV1Y TIL of Waleed Khan, a 16 year old boy from Pakistan who survived being shot five times in the face at the age of 12 when 6 Taliban Militants attacked his school, killing 149 people including 132 school children.