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TIL the presence of eyebrows is more important for facial recognition than the presence of eyes.

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l7a45 TIL that California and Alaska are the only two states that touch the Pacific and North American Plates. Oregon and Washington connect to the Juan De Fuca plate and not the Pacific.
E1NNw TIL that Clint Eastwood hated the cigars that his character smoked in the “Dollars Trilogy”. Because he would have to do multiple takes, he smoked them quite a bit. According to Eli Wallach, Eastwood would sometimes tell the director: “You’d better get it this time, because I’m going to throw up.”
9YlE7 TIL that Walmart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard. Harvard boasts a fancy 5.2 percent admittance rate, but it's beaten badly by Walmart's minute 2.6% of applicants being accepted.
XnKD TIL that America: The Story of Us was filmed in South Africa and uses mostly South African actors.
WMB TIL there are no KFCs in Tibet in part because the Dalai Lama wrote them a letter explaining how the mass slaughter of chickens violated Tibet’s traditional values.