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TIL that carrots aren’t actually good for your eyes… it’s just a myth that the British government fabricated during WWII. They wanted to keep their newly developed radar system secret from the Germans and had to find some way to explain how they were suddenly shooting down a lot more planes.

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x6l4k TIL of the Sable Island Horse, a wild species found only on a low lying sandbar in the Atlantic off the cost of Nova Scotia. Released on Sable Island in the 1700s, they have become their own species over time. About 500 horses currently exist and are now legally protected by the Canadian government
GYLE TIL that after Hurricane Katrina, Cuba and Venezuela offered more than $5 million in disaster aid to the US. The US rejected the aid.
WkORo TIL The first recorded instance of a person living in three centuries was that of Margaret Ann Neve, a woman from the British island of Guernsey who lived from 1792 to 1903.
Z8la TIL: Last year, the norwegian police only fired a gun in one occasion. In 2007, not a single shot was fired.
K5ew TIL: considering the natural process of bone properties, development & growth, it’s fundamentally possible for animals to evolve metal skeletons.