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TIL KFC No Longer Serves Potato Wedges

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XEglE TIL: Horseshoe crab has 10 eyes. Some detect both visible & UV light and some help find mates during the spawning season.. The eyes are a million times more sensitive to light at night than day. They've been around for 450 million years, are not crabs actually and more related to spiders.
M74r8 TIL that Barents Sea was blocked by ice in 16th century
VBjeD TIL Although she was known for playing "dumb blondes" actress Jayne Mansfield was very intelligent. She claimed to have an I.Q. of 163 and in addition to English spoke four other languages: French, Spanish, German, and Italian.
W7N0X TIL Pears do not ripen on the tree. The pear is harvested when it is mature, but not yet ripe, and, if left at room temperature, it slowly reaches a sweet and succulent maturity as it ripens from the inside out
kObx7 TIL Peru uses an ingenious system of "fog catchers" to make water accessible to residents of capital Lima's low-income neighborhoods. The fog catchers resemble large rectangular sailboat sails, which are composed of nylon nets that trap microdroplets of water.