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TIL iguanas have three eyes. Two normal eyes and a third eye on top of their head that only perceives brightness.

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ep775 Til that the last time a Rolling Stones single reached No1 in the UK charts was Honky Tonk Women in 1969, despite them releasing 15 albums in the 53 years since then.
wrM8 TIL due to having no tools, an Inuit man once shat in his hand, shaped it into a knife as it froze, then used it to kill and skin a dog and make a sled out of its bones. He then strapped another dog to the sled so he could travel through a blizzard.
9XQX TIL:DNA barcoding was used to discover that of 1215 seafood samples from 674 restaurants and grocery stores in 21 U.S. states, a full third were mislabeled; The menu says red snapper, but it’s actually tilapia. The white tuna, meanwhile, is really escolar, while the seabass is Antarctic toothfish.
9YvG7 TIL that in 1964 British Prime Minister Alec Douglas-Home was almost kidnapped by two students with political motivations. He persuaded them not to by pointing out that his kidnapping would ensure a Conservative victory in next election, gave the two a case of beer, and bid them goodnight.
MeeJ0 TIL of Richard Ricci, a suspect in the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart. He died of an aneurysm while in police custody in 2002 after two months of proclaiming his innocence and enduring interrogations. His wife never fully recovered from the heartbreak and committed suicide in 2015.