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TIL that owls have three eyelids.

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bGn9 TIL white people were also sold into slavery in the ante-Bellum South
Zm64 TIL there exists a disorienting neurological condition called “Alice in Wonderland Syndrome”, whereby sufferers experience visual hallucinations of seeing things and people as smaller or larger than they actually are (“Lilliputian”).
GAknG TIL happy hour is illegal in NC
rRjjd TIL: The Shipwreck of the Andrea Doria, has earned it the nickname of "The Everest of Diving" due it's depth of 240 ft and the over a dozen divers who lost their life attempting it .
GY1O5 TIL Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of “Fahrenheit 451” on a coin-operated typewriter in the basement of the UCLA library. It charged 10¢ for 30 minutes, and he spent $9.80 in total at the machine.