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TIL: birds exhibit very jerky movements mainly for depth perception — quickly switching which eye is looking at something enables comparison between viewpoints, much like humans constantly compare views from their two eyes which the brain uses to create a 3D picture.

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awEvN TIL Irish villagers in Ringaskiddy, Ireland report that fumes from a local factory that makes Viagra are giving men erections, and citizens speak of a baby boom after the factory's opening. Local bartender Debbie O'Grady said: "One whiff and you're stiff."
4kEDb TIL that following the Black Death in England, peasants were able to negotiate better wages due to labour shortages. In response Parliament passed the Statute of Labourers 1351 which prohibited the soliciting of wages above pre-plague levels. This contributed to the English Peasant's Revolt of 1381.
x6pPD TIL that voice navigation with numbered streets can’t tell the difference between a wide array of street addresses because they sound identical.
78Y1O TIL that Kibergsneset, the easternmost point of mainland norway has roughly the same longitude as Cairo, egypt.
AWdl TIL Local government in Western Australia fined the United States $400 for littering pieces of Skylab Space station