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TIL that Chernobyl firefighter Vladimir Pravik's eyes are believed to have changed from brown to blue due to the radiation exposure

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Zn8G TIL on the stroke of midnight on Jan 1, 1900, the SS Warrimoo intentionally crossed the international date line exactly at the equator. This put the vessel in two different seasons and two different centuries at the same time.
b6vQ0 TIL that the term "Superhero" is jointly trademarked by both DC and Marvel, and any company wishing to use any variation of the term needs to get permission from both companies
l75e5 TIL Research has recently found neurons specifically dedicated to anticipating the sequence of melodic notes, separate from speech processing, showing music activates distinct neural mechanisms for predicting melody sequences.
ne5vY TIL The English vocabulary makes it very difficult to describe smells - we can only describe odors by comparing the smell to other things
RnAa TIL, that ancient sloths were as big as rhinos. They were only exceeded in size by mammoths in other land mammals. There eventual extinction was due to human hunters.