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TIL that square academic caps are called mortarboards, because it looks similar to the mortarboard used by brickmasons to hold mortar

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16Z9W TIL about The Twilight Zone Accident in 1982 where a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter crashed at Indian Dunes in Valencia, California during the making of Twilight Zone: The Movie. The crash decapitated actor Vic Morrow and two children who were on the ground, and injured six helicopter passengers.
p8pKO TIL that scientists came together in a unique study that observed exactly 1,893 dogs pooping among 37 different breeds of dog, and found that dogs have "magnetoreception". Apparently while they are calm, they poop facing north or south. Quite a few other mammals do this too.
4XagJ TIL Owls don't have eyeballs. They have eye tubes.
7b7O TIL: This is the 1st year in 40 Years…..that McDonalds will close more stores than it opens (At least in the U.S.)
5YY6p Never. We're probably stuck with our appendix, pinky toes, tailbone and just about all of our other evolutionary holdovers.