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TIL that scallops have up to 200 eyes and see at quite high resolution.

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QJwGa TIL that France produces 80% of its electricity from nuclear power. Highly radioactive nuclear waste from its production amounts to 10g/year/person. For a person living a 100 years, this amounts to a cube with a side length of 3.8 cm (1.5 inches) - roughly 2/3 the size of a standard Rubick's Cube.
loa47 TIL that the U.S. only spends 12% of its total budget on military, despite commonly held notions that it spends upwards of 40 - 70%.
0ep TIL that due to “Red” and “Read” not being homophones in Italian, French and German, the answer to the riddle “What is black & white and red all over?” is answered with the name of a Communist newspaper.
aw01N TIL that when Spanish explorers found the Yucatán Peninsula, they asked what the area was called. The response was "Yucatán" which means "I don't understand what you are saying".
bpr9 TIL Brother Theodore was imprisioned in Dachau until he signed over his family’s fortune. He went to Switzerland but was kicked out for chess hustling. Einstein helped him escape to the US and he became a janitor in Stanford where he beat 30 professors simultaneously. Then he became an actor.