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TIL that Duke University scientists made rats able to detect infrared light by inserting a neural implant ino their brains

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b9BlN TIL that birds can see the Earth's magnetic field due to the presence of a protein in their retina called Cryptochrome(Cryp4)
ROOa TIL despite actually being a boxing slang, there is a widespread notion that the phrase ‘Saved by the bell’ originated as an expression that relates to people being buried alive having a bell that was attached to the coffin, thus ringing it and be saved.
V8RD TIL In 2014 in Thessaloniki, Greece on 2 separate occasions it was discovered that women had been buried alive, after people at the cemetery heard screams coming from inside the earth.
ZpyVY TIL Ohio has license plates reading "Birthplace of Aviation" and North Carolina reads "First in Flight" because the two states both claim the Wright Brothers as their own. The Wrights performed the first controlled, powered flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C. but built their plane in Ohio
gr1XL TIL locusts are just angry, swarming, grasshoppers that have been agitated enough that they transform