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TIL Salamanders retract their eye balls into their mouth cavities to help them swallow their food.

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wooQ1 TIL The Yamnaya steppe horse culture of the Black and Caspian sea regions was a major driver of migrations into western Europe about 4,500 years ago. This migratory surge is now regarded as the most likely source of the vast family of Indo-European languages, spoken by half the world today.
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4X7no TIL fried brain sandwiches used to be a popular dish in the St. Louis area. They are still a local delicacy in Evansville, Indiana despite stigma associated with mad cow disease (many restaurants replaced cow with pig brains)