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TIL that grazing cows align themselves with the Earth’s magnetic field.

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xVdko TIL researchers have found that the brain’s frontal cortex not only controls vision; it leaves out things in plain sight. Although the eye's vision appear like a camera, in actuality, it is actively constructing a visual scene and making decisions about it.
X0w76 TIL that in 2018, an American half-pipe skier qualified for the Olympics despite minimal experience. Olympic requirements stated that an athlete needed to place in the top 30 at multiple events. She simply sought out events with fewer than 30 participants, showed up, and skied down without falling.
KYgKa TIL 'Footloose' the movie, is based on a real place of Elmore, OK which banned dancing between 1898 to 1980
rNEV1 TIL Einstein’s brain was stolen by a doctor during the autopsy after his death. The doctor kept it for 50 years, gave pieces of it to colleagues and kept it in a closet
54j8 TIL In 2013 a group of Neo Nazis tried to create a compound near a small town in North Dakota. Several local Native American grandmothers raided one of the Neo Nazi rallies and stole their Nazi flag, then burned it.