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TIL Scallops have approximately 100 eyes around the edge of its shell

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PYrYe TIL Pope Urban VIII read Galileo's work on physics "Dialogues on the Two Chief World Systems" and was angered by it because he felt that Galileo wrote the character Simplicio (a less-intelligent "scholar") as a cariacture of himself
OGng4 TIL that the 1983 Dodge Caravan was the first car with built in cup holders
QJWy6 TIL a 2010 Study Found Ozzy Osbourne to Carry "Several Hundred Thousand" Genome Variants that Have Never Been Seen by Scientists, that of Which Make Him Less Susceptible to the Harms of Drugs and Alcohol - and Ultimately a Mutant
E1E7P TIL: During Prohibition in the US, it was illegal to buy or sell alcohol, but it was not illegal to drink it. Some wealthy people bought out entire liquor stores before it passed to ensure they still had alcohol to drink.
OGkxg TIL the hippocampus has a kind of internal switch that flips the brain between "learning mode" and "remembering mode".