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TIL goats have rectangular pupils. This grants them panoramic vision which can detect intruders approaching from various directions.

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W7EmA TIL Danny Trejo has a cookbook
pyle TIL, there is a small village in Japan that invented the practice of rice paddy art whereby 4 different strains of rice are planted in a pattern so that they form a picture once the rice matures.
yQpJv TIL the company behind 5 Minute Crafts is run out of Cyprus by Russians
PYLJ TIL during the Chernobyl, three engineers volunteered to dive into a pool of radioactive hydrogen peroxide with no working flashlights and open a pipe to stop the reactor from exploding. They succeeded.
7VoO TIL that visitors to the Lascaux caves in France do not see the genuine 17,000 year old art, but a replica created to help protect the originals.