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TIL that Ocarina of time is based on a movie

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LBOP TIL that goats have rectangular pupils that allow them to see 320 degrees around their head, with no blind spot.
XEJrE TIL Los Angeles’s private golf courses effectively receive a public subsidy of $89.8 million in taxes” paying only $200,00 in property taxes without granting the public access to the land. LA ranks bottom of the list in terms of public parks against all major metropolitan cities in America.
a8LA TIL that during the filming of The Shawshank Redemption, the American Humane Association monitored all of the scenes involving Brooks’ crow; during the scene when Brooks fed it a maggot, the AHA objected that it was cruel to use a live maggot and required that they use one that was already dead.
NXYQQ TIL in 1998 ASEAN Championship, both Indonesia and Thailand wanted to deliberately lose their match so that they finish 2nd in their group and face "weaker" Singapore in the Semi-Final. Ironically, both of them got eliminated in the Semi-Finals and Singapore won the whole thing in the end.
Yp7A TIL that the severe decrease in crime rates in the 1990s is often attributed in part to the increase in abortions after Roe v Wade was passed in 1973.