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TIL that ostriches eyes are bigger than their brain

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G6V4 TIL 90% of Paraguayans speak Guarani, a native American Indian language.
xmj1 TIL that a 13-year-old boy from Qom, Iran, called Hossein Fahmideh disabled an Iraqi tank and halted the advance of an entire Iraqi tank column at the cost of his life in Kermanshah. He later was awarded the 1st Grade Fath medal (posthumously) and the date of his death is now a holiday in Iran.
JY6ml TIL that Rick Rescorla, the director of security at Morgan Stanley, saved the lives of nearly his whole company on 9/11 by making them evacuate the South Tower as soon as the North Tower was hit, which was against Port Authority orders
9wp0D TIL that the Goodwin Sands (A sandbank that lies off the East coast of England) is home to more than 2,000 shipwrecks.
6mvl TIL that besides 9/11, the only other attack by an outside force on Washington D.C. was in 1814 when George Cockburn, an admiral in the British Royal Navy, literally walked into the White House, ate James Madison’s dinner, drank his wine, and then set fire to the place.