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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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0ddXv TIL in France it is illegal to disinherit one’s children, meaning that a particular share of the deceased’s estate is legally required to be kept for their children, or for their spouse if they had no children
OoyBL TIL that the longest serving employee of a company is Walter Orthmann who started his job at a textiles company in Brazil in 1938 and is still there.
R7417 TIL A man whose car bore a license plate reading 'NO PLATE' received notices for thousands of unpaid parking tickets.
wEmM TIL on the night Ted Bundy was executed, an estimated 2,000 celebrants sang, danced, and set off fireworks in a pasture across the street from the prison, then cheered loudly as the white hearse carrying his body left the facility.
Oo5w6 TIL about Francis Wharton, who had no teeth, killed a deer, made a denture out of the animals teeth and then ate the deer