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TIL historians don't know why important warlord Ivar the Boneless was called "boneless." Theories range from him losing a leg to impotence & beyond.

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VVxk TIL horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal, have excellent day and night vision, but they have two-color, or dichromatic vision; their color vision is somewhat like red-green color blindness in humans, where certain colors, especially red and related colors, appear as a shade of green.
6jVX TIL 27% of Canadian university graduates do not have the basic level of literacy traditionally required to function in modern society.
PYKw TIL That a gas cloud will get too close to the Black Hole in the center of our galaxy next year, and we’ll see it ripped apart.
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mxQgR TIL about 18th century thai king Suriyenthrathibodi , who was nicknamed the tiger king for his appalling private life and his acts of cruelty.