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TIL Scallops can have up to 100 eyes.

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d8nMZ TIL that there is a $200k reward for anyone who can prove that the source code MS-DOS was copied from an older OS called CP/M.
6EMd8 Hong Kong-based students, Sum Ming Wong and Kin Pong Li designed a door handle that uses light to always keep itself sterilized. The students were inspired by the SARS outbreak in the 2000s and figured that a self-sanitizing door handle is more effective than the chemical-based cleaning processes we are using right now. The handle is made of a glass tube with aluminum caps at each end and the entire handle is covered in a powdered photocatalytic coating made from a mineral called titanium dioxide. The bacteria is decomposed through a chemical reaction that is activated by UV light reacting with the thin coating on the glass tube.
9YweQ TIL the Swedish propaganda/war ship Vasa sank 100m into its maiden voyage and was recovered 333 years later. Today it is the oldest preserved ship and can be seen in a Stockholm museum.
LQjRV TIL that the record for most lunar orbits is shared by Apollo 17 astronaut Ronald Evans and five mice brought on the mission. The mice, named Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey, were euthanized and dissected upon their return.
l7lwa TIL For centuries the Romans used a period of eight days in civil practice, but in 321 CE Emperor Constantine established the seven-day week in the Roman calendar and designated Sunday as the first day of the week.