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TIL that owls are unable to move their eyes in any direction.

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dD5bK TIL of a Victorian-era English recipe for a toast sandwich: Two pieces of bread with a slice of toast in between. Modern reviews have ranged from calling it “just not that good” to “an extravagance of blandness.”
woXRJ TIL about death flights. Captives would be loaded into a plane, stripped, and pushed out over the ocean. These account for 1500-2000 of the 20k-30k estimated to have been disappeared by the Argentine military between 1976 and 1983 in the Argentine Dirty War.
x6O1w TIL the Association of German National Jews supported Hitler, believing his rhetoric was just to "stir up the masses"
rNl1M TIL Mount Erebus is a continually active volcano in Antarctica, and it has an exposed lava lake that is nearly half a kilometer in diameter.
9Y7WG TIL Deglazing: What it Is and Why To Do It. Deglazing is a fancy and intimidating word that means to pour some cold liquid into a very hot pan to get up all the brown bits stuck to the bottom of the pan. Those brown bits are where all the flavors are, and it is called “fond.”