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TIL that our eyes adjust to light or dark areas by either breaking down or combining ingredients of a chemical in our eyes.

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1507 TIL George Lucas gets paid every time you see an ad for the Motorola Droid. Because “Droid.”
rReX4 TIL Terri Schiavo, the center of a famous right-to-die case, has three dates on her headstone: Born, Departed (the day she went into a vegetative state in 1990), and At Rest (the day she died after her feeding tube was removed in 2005)
yVeZV TIL US Army Maj. Gen. William Dean, captured by N. Kor. troops in 1950, was the most superior US officer captured since the fall of the Philippines. Before his capture, he led troops in brutal urban combat, knocked out a tank with a hand grenade, and survived over a month in the wild, losing 80 lbs.
6EvZZ TIL that the TV show "Hannah Montana" was originally going to be called "Alexis Texas" before the producers realised that a porn star already had that name and had to change it to avoid young children searching the name online and accidentally coming across pornography.
X09NE TIL Homo Sapiens hunted to extinction 46/57 megaherbivore species (body mass ≥1,000 kg) over the past 50 000 years