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TIL Despite being the sixth largest country, mainland Australia has no land antipodes (if you dug through the earth anywhere in Australia, you would reach open ocean)

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jNYbX TIL that the red-eye effect in pictures is literally blood in our eyes. If a picture is taken when our pupils are dilated, they don't have enough time to constrict and the light reflects off the blood in the back of our eyes.
woAx1 TIL that "Dinner" (the big meal) used to be around midday so artificial light wasn't needed, and then "Supper" was an evening snack. Dinner moved later in the day during the 18th century, until it was so late a new meal was needed to bridge the gap: "Lunch."
nejOB TIL that the Duracell Bunny promotes battery everywhere in the world, except for the USA and Canada where Energizer holds the trademarks to a "battery bunny"
yVg5v TIL a human brain uses 12 watts to think while, if it could, an AI system doing the same processing could use 2.7 billion watts
X0BnR TIL: When pied babbler birds can't raise their own chicks, they sometimes steal chicks from neighbors to keep their group big enough to survive.