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TIL that reindeer eyeballs turn blue in winter to help them see at lower light levels. (They're golden-colored in summer.) No other mammals are known to have this ability.

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Xakj TIL 35 children (and 1 adult) died in Ireland because the nuns didn’t want the firemen to see the children in their pyjamas.
PYQ4J TIL the classic Peanuts football gag ended on October 24, 1999. In the final strip, Rerun held the football instead of Lucy and whether or not Charlie Brown kicked the football was never revealed.
4Xb96 TIL about Kunyaza, a sexual practice endemic to Rwanda which leads to female ejaculation 90% of the time and which is traditionally combined with another cultural practice: labia enlongation
LQkv TIL descendants of the 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of the famous dish, run a sandwich shop
QJe99 TIL the longest prison sentence ever given in the U.S. was a sentence for 30,000 years!