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TIL that the light you see when you rub your eyes really hard are called Phosphenes and it has been described since the ancient Greeks.

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aLeM TIL in 1999, New Mexico state Sen. Duncan Scott successfully got a bill passed in the NM senate requiring all psychiatrists testifying in court to wear a wizard’s hat.
ne7Eb TIL : Doctors are transplanting poop from healthy people into the stomachs of people with certain illnesses and it is healing them at a rate of 91-98%.
wB1P TIL that in order to play different people stuntmen in John Wick started shooting with beards and long hair and slowly trimmed them during the production
VZJG TIL a bird that is endemic to the Amazon Basin called the Hoatzin is hatched with claws on its wings; A genetic remnant that is evidence of birds dinosaurean lineage.
v1mjB TIL that in 1971, the original tapes for Monty Python were almost erased and destroyed by the BBC. This was intended as a cost saving measure to reuse the tapes. Terry Gilliam bought them all and saved them.