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TIL that owls do not have eyeballs. Rather tube like eyes. This prevents them from being able to move them.

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kOoeE TIL that during the battle of Okinawa, a US destroyer was hit by four bombs, six kamikaze attacks, multiple strafing, and still remained afloat. When the captain was asked to abandon ship, he angrily replied "I'll never abandon ship as long as a single gun will fire."
AoKx TIL: Ronald Reagan signed an Execituve Order prohibiting assassinations.
yRPe TIL that ladders have expiration dates.
Dxmj TIL that your employer, even a past employer, can profit from your death by secretly taking out a huge life insurance policy on you without your knowledge. Millions of such policies were okayed by Congress in 2006.
5Gmn TIL: In the 1970’s two factions: hippies and cops played football against one another in a series of games immortalized as “Pigs vs Freaks”.