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TIL that pirates and sailors wore eye patches not necessarily to cover a missing eye, but also to keep one eye dark-adapted for work below decks.

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Wkywo TIL That Dung beetles are currently the only known non-human animal to navigate and orient themselves using the Milky Way
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OoGnX [TIL] A man nicknamed "God's Banker" because of his work with the Vatican was killed by the mafia and hanged from Blackfriar's Bridge in London in 1982- with bricks and $15,000 in his pockets.