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TIL Prong Horned Antelopes have 10x vision, which means on a clear night they can see the rings of Saturn.

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dpK TIL the top 100 flying aces of WWII were all German.
yDN8 TIL President Roosevelt collapsed while being painted. He never regained consciousness before dying. The unfinished painting captures his last waking moment.
rR5xw TIL NASA’s Crawler-Transporter gets .0067 mpg, making it the worst gas mileage of all self-propelled land vehicles in the world.
O1GL TIL that the word “metaphysics” literally means “after physics”. An early editor of Aristotle’s works needed a placeholder name for the untitled philosophical book that came after the the book he called Physics.
dv8E TIL basketball legend Tim Duncan was a teenage champion swimmer in the Virgin Islands. When Hurricane Hugo destroyed the island’s only Olympic-sized swimming pool in 1989, Duncan was forced to swim in the ocean and he quickly lost his enthusiasm for swimming because of his fear of sharks