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[TIL] Tigers, Lions, and other big cats don't have slitted pupils like house cats, but round pupils like us.

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5jJ8 TIL the original soundtrack of “Who wants to be a millionaire” took the pitch up a semitone for each subsequent question, in order to increase tension as the contestant progressed through the game.
D1vNr TIL, mongooses found in Hawai’i are native to India and were originally introduced to Hawai’i Island in 1883 by the sugar industry to control rats in sugarcane fields and have since caused the extinction of 8 federally listed endangered Hawaiian birds.
nelmW TIL that due to a time crunch, the Voyager engineers used aluminum foil bought from a store to protect the internal cabling from cosmic radiation
Z8PjB TIL about Boston Marriage, a cohabitation of two wealthy women, independent of financial support from a man. There is also a Wellesley Marriage, where the relationship involved two academic women. Some of these relationships were romantic, but others were not.
JYvQB TIL that the Australian serial killer, Eric Cooke, was captured by police after he hid a murder weapon in a nearby bush. Police found the weapon and returned it to the same bush tied to fishing line. Police then constructed a hide and waited 17 days until Cooke retrieved the rifle.