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TIL that the eye has a blind spot and here’s a test so you can not see for yourself

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Oorne TIL: Researchers taught African grey parrots to buy food using tokens. They were then paired up, one parrot given ten tokens and the other none. Without any incentive for sharing, parrots with tokens started to give some to their broke partners so that everyone could eat.
mxMMv TIL that Idina Menze the woman who played Maureen in Rent is also the performer who sang Let it Go in Frozen
WknQB TIL a study in 2017 found that while break-ups take a more immediate emotional toll on women, men often never fully recover — they simply move on.
QyLE TIL the late-President of the University of California described the three purposes of a university are “To provide sex for the students, sports for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.”
yQmwe TIL there were only two English words that end in "gry"-- hungry and angry. In 2018, the Oxford English Dictionary added a third-- "hangry" (an irritable state induced by lack of food).