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TIL Snakes have infrared vision, allowing them to see prey in the dark.

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8alp4 TIL that Salvador Dalí made a cartoon for Disney
loMv7 TIL, although it sounds incredible that people have survived falls from aircraft as high as 20 000 feet, the extreme height makes little difference as anything above 10 or 12 stories and you've reached terminal velocity. So a fall from 20,000 is no different from a 500 foot fall."
Q5re TIL that in Ancient Rome a slave would continuously whisper ‘Remember you are mortal’ in the ears of victorious generals as they were paraded through the streets after coming home, triumphant, from battle.
loBYr TIL of the horse Comanche, who was the lone survivor from his detachment at the Battle of Little Bighorn. He is one of only three horses in US history to be given full military honors at his funeral.
GAeQj TIL Joseph Goebbels (Nazi minister of Propaganda) funded the development of a low-cost Radio ("Volksempfänger", the “people’s receiver”) which delivered State-Run "news" directly into the homes of German citizens. It was a "vital element of success" in the spreading Nazi ideology.