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

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aweD9 TIL that the Julia Butterfly of Costa Rica drinks crocodile tears for the salt and protein content.
VlEB TIL the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World only existed at the same time for a period of less than 60 years.
PYLpJ TIL that in 1921 a thriving black town in Oklahoma was looted and burned to the ground by an angry white mob. Up to 300 people died that day in what is now called “The Tulsa Massacre”.
j67yR TIL that in the 17th and early 18th centuries, facial hair was thought to be a kind of bodily waste - specifically, the leftover by-product from sperm production - a kind of seminal excrement emerging from within the body.
GAnjE TIL Rifleman Khan was a German Shepherd dog awarded the Dickin medal in WW2 for saving his handler from drowning after their landing craft was sunk by artillery fire