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TIL an ostriches knee is hidden by its feathers. The part of their leg that looks like a knee is actually their ankle.

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JYAy8 TIL Humans are still evolving. One fast-evolving gene is human accelerated region 1 (HAR1), which is needed during brain development. In Tibet, a rapid surge in frequency of a mutated gene that increases blood oxygen content gives locals a survival advantage in higher altitudes.
ep6EE TIL French physicists Leon Foucault and Louis Fizeau made the first successful photograph of the sun in 1845, five years after the first photograph of the Moon. In a major technological feat at the time, the solar photograph had an exposure time of 1/60th of a second
9MVM TIL that in Inception, if you take the first letters of the main characters’ names - Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal and Saito - they spell “Dreams”. If you add Peter, Ariadne and Yusuf, the whole makes “Dreams Pay”, which is what dreams do for a mind thief.
vgMR TIL on 3/11/08 a viewer asked Jim Cramer if he should worry about his investment in Bear Stearns. Cramer replied “No! No! No! Bear Stearns is not in trouble. If anything, they’re more likely to be taken over. Don’t move your money from Bear.” 3 days later it dropped 92%.
awNEo TIL Andrea Bocelli has been blind since he was 12, when he was hit in the eye by a soccer ball which caused a brain hemorrhage. Doctors tried leeches as a last resort but unfortunately were unsuccessful.