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TIL that even a picture of the sun constricts your pupils

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W7NQX TIL Actor Matthew Lillard, who plays William Afton in the FNAF movie, also played Shaggy from Scooby-Doo (live action, 2002 movie) 🤯
9jd7 TIL that Harvard professor Roger Fisher proposed implanting nuclear launch codes in a volunteer so that the President would have to kill an innocent person before firing. The Pentagon rejected the idea fearing the President would not go through with it even if it was necessary.
rRgLw TIL the USS Wake was the only American ship that surrendered in WWII to the Japanese, who then gave it to their puppet Chinese regime. It was then recaptured by the Americans after WWII, given to the Nationalist Chinese, and then captured by Communist China.
erYn TIL that frankincense smoke is psychoactive and incense may act as a weak drug during religious ceremonies.
ZlgD TIL the steel used in the US to make structural beams, plates and reinforcing bars is nearly 100% recycled. Employing 1 metric ton (1000kgs) of recycled steel saves the need for the extraction and use of 1.1 metric tons of iron ore, 630 kilograms of coal, and 55 kilograms of limestone.