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TIL: Swordfish can heat up their eyes in order to hunt better

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Z8p9p TIL American soldiers took Japanese skulls as trophies during WWII, even sending them home as souvenirs.
xV5WB TIL chicken produced in US has been banned in the EU since 1997 as it is washed in a strong chlorine solution. The chlorine washing is popular in US due to poor hygiene standards in abattoirs.
BxEx TIL Al Qaeda’s hit list for american politicians didn’t include Joe Biden because they thought he would mess up the presidency so badly as to be helpful towards their cause
ZpR9D TIL that offering a reward for a previously unrewarded activity is a shift toward extrinsic motivation and a weakening of pre-existing intrinsic motivation
8a0rb TIL that a liter of surface seawater typically contains 100 billion viruses, most of them “unidentified and uncharacterized”