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TIL brown eyes are actually blue under a layer of melanin

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Y7X1B TIL Douglas fir trees aren't firs
PaOE TIL that when supersonic speed is achieved the drag of the aircraft is significantly lowered, thus achieving better fuel economy. But the loss in lift-to-drag ratio overturns this advantage.
b6vVa TIL Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone is widely credited with introducing percussive playing on the electric bass in the 1969 song Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again). He stated that he developed bass slapping in an earlier band in order to compensate for that band's lack of a drummer.
ne4QW TIL The Soviet KGB fabricated evidence linking the Central Intelligence Agency to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and passed the material to unwitting conspiracy theorists in the United States, according to the Mitrokhin Archive based on KGB files brought to the West by a defector.
4Wja TIL there are only three northern white rhinos left on earth, the only male has 24x7 armed guards, and there is a gofundme to raise half a million bucks to develop rhino IVF to keep the species alive