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TIL that the 3DS has so far outsold the PS4

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b6ZW7 TIL insects fly into light bulbs because artificial light messes up their sense of direction
15AO TIL hammer head sharks have a 360-degree vision in the vertical plane, meaning they can see above and below them at all times.
OGeba TIL St. Patrick's day originally was celebrated with blue. George III needed to create a new order of chivalry for the kingdom of Ireland and needed a color for it. The Order of the Garter for the previous Kingdom of England already used a dark blue, so a lighter blue was used. It changed in ~1800.
8erEb TIL That during WW1 France built a replica of the city of Paris which included the Eiffel Tower and was located on the outskirts just in case of a German attack.
BrJlb TIL Alexander Scourby recorded the first audio book version of the King James Bible. The American Bible Society distributed the recordings as The Talking Bible, a set of 169 LP records with a running time of 84.5 hours. Scourby recorded 422 books and considered Talking Books his most important work.