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TIL that although it is absent in mammals, the photoreceptive parietal eye--quite literally a third eye--was present in their closest extinct relatives, the therapsids

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DQG6g TIL Michael Behenna was a US LT who stripped, assaulted, and shot to death an Iraqi prisoner he'd been ordered to return home. Despite being convicted for this premeditated murder, he was pardoned by the president in 2019.
BOZW TIL on British coins, the direction in which the monarch’s head faces alternates with each successive monarch.
m6no TIL in 2005 A Texas man created an internet controlled remote firearm with webcam mount for people wanting to hunt game online. It was quickly shut down by the Government of Texas.
AEOa TIL 1.9 billion Coca Colas are sold per day. That’s over 74 million kgs of sugar/day just for the world’s Coke consumption.
0w8oR TIL that Quentin Tarantino is allegedly working on a Star Trek film, which he plans to also direct. He has described its story as "Pulp Fiction in space".