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TIL You get red eyes in pictures because your pupil is just a hole and the flash reflects the blood in the back of your eyes

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OXKY TIL A Stretch of Route 66 Will Play ‘America the Beautiful’ as You Drive to the Side
ol1Y TIL that when Fibonacci created his number sequence, he didn’t realise it described all sorts of aspects in nature.
OljY TIL that the only recorded instance of a cavalry capturing an enemy’s ships occurred in the unusually cold winter of 1795, when most of the waterways in Northern Europe froze over and the French cavalry were able to charge out onto a frozen port to capture the Dutch fleet stranded there
aw67M TIL nobody really knows where Bosnia ends and Herzegovina begins,and there is no official or universally accepted boundary in the country between the two regions
5YOEP TIL that Helen Keller thought it was okay to let infants die if they had severe mental impairments or physical deformities.