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TIL MacLean's magazine ranked Sir Mackenzie Bowell as Canada’s greatest bearded prime minister. It was polar bear white and somehow, despite being considerably wider than his face, a near-perfect half-circle

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4ke46 TIL box jellyfish (class Cubozoa) have actual eyes, with lenses and corneas.
dDk17 TIL that Japan has the highest percentage of residents over the age of 65 at 28.2%. The world average is 10%.
kO7V4 TIL in 2006 a teenage girl secretly pointed a webcam at her bed and left it running all night, hoping to prove to her mother that her father was molesting her. In spite of the video evidence, the jury voted to acquit because they thought the girl "didn't seem upset enough" during her testimony.
N7gDe TIL Adélie penguins have been observed to engage in necrophilia, as young males often cannot tell the difference between compliant and dead females. This was first observed in 1912 but was deemed too shocking, and so was only rediscovered in 2012.
0lJL TIL that a female chauffeur is called a chauffeuse.