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TIL that the reason flies are so hard to swat because they have 360 degree vision. They can detect where a hand/swatter is coming from, and position themselves to optimally fly away in the opposite direction.

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gMnVA TIL Neo’s passport in “The Matrix” (1999) expired on September 11, 2001.
Gerj TIL A Woman in Oregon started a wildfire to give some work to her bored firefighter friends. Eventually, the fire, named as the Sunnyside Turnoff wildfire, spread to about 80 square miles — 51,000 acres — costing nearly $8 million to fight and took two months to bring under complete control.
gXJ4 TIL Cows moo in “regional accents”
NGP1 TIL there is an amusement park in Nara, originally created to mimic DisneyLand in the US. The Park is now abandoned and looks awesome!
6EpY8 TIL of an elegy “Requiem” written over three decades and is known as the best known poetry work about Soviet Great Terror.