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TIL That the mallard duck has a retinal visual field giving 360 degrees visual coverage

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P1New TIL Chinese's attempt to eradicate sparrow in 1958 lead to estimated 15 to 55 million human death the following year
WKeX TIL Alexander Hamilton and James Madison both claimed to have written numbers 49-58 and 62-63 of the Federalist Papers. In 1964, a computer analysis of the text revealed that Madison was indeed the author of all 12 of those essays, despite Hamilton’s claim to the contrary.
b67GE TIL the stopwatch on 60 Minutes was real and is now on display at the Smithsonian. "This watch was used on the program until the late 1990s, when it was replaced by a computer graphic."
PgJJ TIL in 2009, a 9yo girl suffered a life-threatening pregnancy as a result of being repeatedly raped by her Step-Father. After the pregnancy was terminated, the performing Doctor and the girl’s mother were excommunicated by the Catholic Church. The Step-Father was not.
BgEGx TIL that the city of Wausau, Wisconsin banned the throwing of snowballs from 1884 up to 2020.