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TIL: All birds have extra eyelids

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pYNyA TIL that Carmel, Indiana has the most roundabouts (defined as roundabout per intersection) in the world.
9Y7YX TIL that Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin had an improvised jam session which was recorded but never released.
e0y0D TIL that scuttled WWI ships serve as a source of steel for high precision sensors
WkEpB TIL about renowned British military surgeon James Barry, a pioneer in the medical field with a career spanning over 50 years. After his death in 1865 the nurse prepping his body for burial noted female anatomy and stretch marks from pregnancy. Barry had been born a woman named Margaret Ann Bulkley.
jNYkn TIL that The Wright Brothers achievement of powered human flight went largely unnoticed and unacknowledged by the American public for years.