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TIL that the whites of human eyes evolved as a means of non-verbal communication and that dogs also rely the human sclera to pick up visual cues

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6E5Z TIL on September 7, 1978, a Bulgarian Dissident Writer named Georgi Markov was waiting at a bus stop in London when he felt what he thought was a bug bite. Three days later he died, having been shot in the leg with a sophisticated umbrella-gun loaded with a bullet containing ricin poison.
rN5Vw TIL I learned that a Brass Rat is a special ring given to MIT graduates. It is redesigned each year by a committee of MIT students.
6E6nm TIL Denmark built a waste to energy plant that is a giant ski slope (open year round) and it also includes the worlds tallest artificial climbing wall.
jb4R TIL: Noel Gallagher described his brother Liam as “a man with a fork in a world of soup”
4kMXa TIL Cows are actually really good swimmers and in Ireland they’re taken by boat to graze on offshore islands!