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TIL that bees have five eyes and I just think that's neat 🐝

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EgeJp Today I learned that when you see someone else in pain—whether they stub their toe, cry, or even just look sad—your brain lights up in the same areas as if you were experiencing that pain yourself. This incredible phenomenon is due to something called "Mirror Neurons".
Pk8J TIL Pixar’s ‘Cars’ movie only made $462M in theaters but has since grossed more than $8 billion in merchandising.
vlw7 TIL The reason Popeye eats spinach is because of an error in the calculation of its iron content by chemist Erich von Wolf in 1870. He misplaced a decimal point, recording iron as having 35mg of iron per 100g, instead of its true value of 3.5mg/100g. The former is equal to eating part of a paperclip
pY7JZ TIL residents of Tangier Island, 12 miles off the coast of Virginia, have remained so isolated they still speak a dialect similar to the original colonists from the 1700s
bEv7 TIL that a Canadian family concerned that they were too attached to technology decided to spend an entire year living like it was 1986 with no internet, cellphones or cable.