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TIL: 65-85% of white cats with two blue eyes go deaf.
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TIL that MARIO wears a Hat because Programmers at that time found it difficult to create hair movement when the character jumped.
KB0G
TIL the reason the epidemic was called the “Spanish flu” is because neutral Spain had no wartime censorship during WWI. The press was free to report on outbreaks in Seville and Madrid, and on the illness of King Alfonso VIII. The first outbreak may have actually been in Kansas.
rErW
TIL Brazil has never been on the losing side of a war.
rRnZe
TIL that why mandrills have such colorful bums. Turns out the bright red and blue on a male mandrill’s backside really draws the eye – especially the ladies’. Only dominant, top males flaunt such vibrant hues, and female mandrills see them as a badge of fitness.
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Til no child with type I diabetes survived until adulthood before 1922.