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TIL that a shark is the only known fish that can blink with both eyes

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5YE0p TIL of Musical Roads, which are highway rumble strips that sound like music when you drive over them. First created in Denmark, they are now found all over the world. One stretch of road in California plays the William Tell Overture.
Ooow7 TIL that the entire US-Canada border is defined by a 20 ft. deforested area called "The Slash".
WkxnX TIL Mickey Mouse is based on Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Walt Disney created Oswald but rights to the character were taken by Universal Studios. Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse as a replacement for Disney Studios. He made sure all future characters were owned directly by Disney.
JZlV TIL that in 2009, a researcher at the University of Montreal launched a study into how pornography affects 20-30-year-old men but had to stop research because he could not find a single person who had never watched a sexually explicit video
VAjG TIL A German man was locked up in a high-security psychiatric hospital for claiming that a bank was involved with money-laundering, and was released years later when the bank was raided for money-laundering.