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TIL: Long periods of isolation without sunlight creates 'time-shifting' effects on the mind to the point of sleep-wake cycles being doubled.

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oB9MY Today I Learned that one can approximate the current temperature (in Fahrenheit) by counting cricket chirps for 14 seconds, then add 40.
0Vg1 TIL - Without the presence of dominant male elephants, juvenile elephants of Pilanesberg bullied rhinos and female elephants until fully grown male elephants were introduced to quell the bad behavior.
rNno0 TIL that "Michel Vaillant" (famous French comic series) is the birth name of Karl Benz, german Inventar of the first automobil using a combustion engine capable of driving more than 100km.
KYNBR TIL animals are beheaded as part of a postmortem rabies tests.
4PQg TIL that retinal, a photorector molecule in your eye, has to leave the eye and be recycled through the liver once it has been exposed to light.