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TIL The cornea is the only part of the body with no blood supply and it gets its oxygen directly from the air

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Brbek Today I learned the guitar that's smashed in The Hateful Eight was the real museum piece dating back to the 1870s
QJllL TIL that when some Hawaiians stole a cutter vessel from James Cook, he kidnapped one of their chiefs, expecting them to submit like the many other tribes he had encountered. The Hawaiians proceeded to kill Cook and 4 of his men.
ZpGPQ TIL Casey Kasem was the original voice of Shaggy Rogers on Scooby-Doo
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koMe TIL Dan Aykroyd jokes that Slimer in “Ghostbusters” is the ghost of John Belushi