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TIL your peripheral vision is more light-sensitive due to the fact that there are more light-detecting cells by the edges of your eye than in the center.

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p8gO8 TIL that Heinz petitioned American bun companies to consider equal hot dog-to-bread ratio.
5VKEr TIL of Joe Arridy who was a 23-year-old man with an IQ score of 46 and the mind of a six-year-old who was wrongfully convicted and executed in 1939. He did not understand the meaning of the gas chamber, telling the warden "No, no, Joe won't die". He smiled while being taken to the gas chamber.
X0DJE TIL that the Shire breed of horse was first developed as the "Great Horse" during the reign of King Henry VIII of England. Acts were passed in 1535 and 1541 forbidding the use for breeding of horses under 15 hands (60" at the shoulder) in height, also prohibiting all exportation, even into Scotland.
XeaE TIL Black People Were Actually Placed in Zoos
BrmJD TIL that Dreamworks consulted over 300 religious’ experts for The Prince of Egypt. This included biblical scholars, theologians, archeologists, Egyptologists, clergy and different religious leaders.