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TIL that “one moment” is actually a medieval unit of time representing ~90 seconds

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QJApp TIL a Chinese woman was bitten by a Pit viper 3 months after stuffing the snake into a bottle of wine, in order to make a traditional Chinese medicine called Snake Wine. She opened the bottle to drink some after suffering from joint pain, the snake escaped, biting her in the process.
6AYQ TIL Matthew Broderick (who played Ferris Bueller and voiced Simba) killed two people and only paid a fine of $175
0dy1y TIL Unlike most bivalves, scallops possess up to 200 small eyes along the edge of their mantles. These eyes utilize a concave, parabolic mirror of guanine crystals to focus light, allowing scallops to detect movement and changes in light, aiding in predator detection.
v1bXx TIL At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
pY5ae TIL the Kitti's hog-nosed bat aka bumblebee bat is the world’s smallest mammal by body length 29-33mm(1.1-1.3”)