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TIL that birds can see the Earth's magnetic field due to the presence of a protein in their retina called Cryptochrome(Cryp4)

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WMEN TIL the precursor to Monopoly was designed to illustrate how rents enrich property owners and impoverish tenants, and that when children play the game, it would “provoke their natural suspicion of unfairness.”
ryo TIL This woman struck out Ruth and Gehrig back to back only to be banned from baseball
oBBRW TIL that British woman Amy Dallamura was banned from being within 50 meters of the sea after she unsuccessfully tried to commit suicide by throwing herself into the ocean fifty times - costing emergency crews over £1m
QNdJM TIL: Carl Sagan originally wanted to include the Beatles' Here Comes the Sun on the record on the spacecraft Voyager but the record company EMI declined
r1Wy TIL colourblind persons can be advantages to the military as it is easier for them to spot “camouflage” colours because the differences in texture and brightness are more apparent.