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TIL Chickens can spontaneously change their sex

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oQrr TIL some animals like frogs and lizards have a third eye, a very small grey oval between their two regular eyes, which functions as a photoreceptor connected directly to the pineal gland to tell their brain when it is day or night while the regular eyes are closed
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R5gE8 TIL that the longest bridge in Europe is called the Vasco da Gama Bridge and is 12km or 7.6 miles long.
aAON TIL that Joaquin Phoenix rolled his car, & a man tapped on his window & said “Just relax.” Phoenix replied “I’m fine. I am relaxed.” The man said “No you’re not,” & stopped Phoenix from lighting a cigarette while gas was leaking into the car. The man was famed German film director Werner Herzog.
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