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TIL that if the human eye was a camera it would cost roughly $35.000.000

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9Y0V7 TIL of Rusik, a Russian police cat. He was adopted by customs officers and sniffed vehicles and travellers for poached sturgeon roe. Rusik was later hit by a car he had previously found sturgeon in. Police suspected it was a revenge killing, due to how effective Rusik was at uncovering contraband.
a5DL TIL that a Harvard Business School research found that sarcasm is the “highest form of intelligence,” as “interpretation and construction of sarcasm lead to greater creativity because they activate abstract thinking.”
J9gk TIL The elder brother to N. Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Nam, was passed over to become the heir apparent for illegally going to Disneyland.
JZE4 TIL that Pinball was considered gambling and banned between the 1940s to 1976. It ended when enthusiast Roger Sharpe played it before a committee and called out precisely what he was going to shoot for, and then did so. The ban was lifted since he had proven it was a game of skill, not chance.
OGBZ7 TIL On July 26, 1931, a swarm of grasshoppers descended on Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota devastating millions of acres of crops. It was so thick that it blocked out the sun and one could shovel the grasshoppers with a scoop. Cornstalks were eaten to the ground and fields left completely bare.