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

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OpZg TIL the University of Texas sniper, Charles Whitman, who killed 15 people from a tower in 1966, sought psychiatric help on multiple occasions in the months before his murder spree. He asked in a note that his brain be examined after his death to find what was wrong. A brain tumor was indeed found.
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