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TIL Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from the blowing desert sand

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BlGW TIL doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37 % fewer mistakes in surgery and performed the task 27% faster than non-gaming surgeons.
KYgoJ TIL the most widely used Language in North America during the 1700s and 1800s was not English or Spanish but a universal form of Sign Language now known as Plains Sign. It allowed natives and colonists to cross language barriers and trade easily.
M7JEb TIL In 2009, two French and British nuclear ballistic missile submarines collided by chance in the Atlantic Ocean. They were moving so slowly that they couldn't have detected each other just a few feet apart.
yMBJ TIL When executives from game developer Red Fly met with George Lucas they were instructed to never say “No” to him, told not to mention The Force Unleashed protagonist, Starkiller (George would only refer to him as “that guy”) and, most importantly, not to tell George how the Force works.
woOPJ TIL there was an official Ace Attorney movie released in 2012, and Nintendo Life called it "the best video game movie out there"