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TIL birds have specialized cells in their eyes that allow them to see the earth's magnetic fields. They use this for navigation during migration season.

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Bry7d TIL Fred Phelps, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church, was excommunicated a few months before his death for having a 'change of heart' towards gay people
omeK TIL that there is a galaxy being deathray-ed by its own supermassive black hole.
N788b TIL robbers in India robbed trains using 1 rupee coins. The coins were used to complete the signal circuit normally completed by train wheels to make the light go red and stop the train
mM7Y TIL that the whole reason we focus on presidents’ first 100 days in office so much is because of how much FDR accomplished during his.
mx7rR TIL that when Native Americans occupied Alcatraz Island in 1969, they offered to buy the island from the US government for $24 in glass beads and cloth, the price allegedly paid to Native Americans for Manhattan Island in the 17th century.