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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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wL1M7 TIL Although the cost to buy has come down, the cost to fly remains high. The F-35 costs $44,000 an hour to fly, or $44 million to fly for 1,000 hours, or $352 million over the 8,000 hour lifespan of the jet.
p869Z TIL Gigapans are gigapixel panoramas, digital images with billions of pixels. They are huge panoramas with fascinating detail, all captured in the context of a single brilliant photo. They’re a great way to explore around the world from your own home.
loQ6K TIL that the United States hired former Wehrmacht Chief of Staff Franz Halder to write their official history of the Eastern Front of WWII to downplay Nazi war crimes in order to make the Soviets appear as bad as possible and was even awarded by the American government for his work
8ek4P TIL: In the USA during the 19th century, many little girls were given play ‘Death Kits’, which included a corpse doll and coffin. Girls would prepare the doll for viewing, place it in its coffin and conduct a play funeral.
XoaP TIL a person infected with toxoplasmosis is more than twice as likely to be in a car accident—attributed to the parasite’s tendency to reduce reaction time—and has a higher than normal risk of schizophrenia and suicide