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TIL Rabbits have nearly 360° panoramic vision, allowing them to detect predators from all directions. They can see everything behind them and only have a small blind-spot in front of their nose.

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R79oj TIL Goldbach's Conjecture asks if every even integer is the sum of two prime numbers. It's deemed a "million buck problem" because its solution would advance mathematics by a great margin, although it remains unsolved since 1742
VMnb8 TIL that cigarette butts are environmentally toxic and the most littered item in the world
b9Roj TIL that the taxonomic name for the endangered western lowland gorilla is Gorilla gorilla gorilla
4kL7o TIL that a kangaroo rat can survive without ever drinking water. It extracts water from it's diet of seeds.
QNJYX TIL that in 2006, an anti-scammer convinced an email scammer to send him a detailed wooden carving of a Commodore 64.