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TIL Polar bears are invisible to night-vision goggles.

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QYbL TIL of the Gruen transfer - the moment when you enter a shopping mall and forget why you’re there because of the intentionally confusing layout.
69A1m TIL Kiwis are the smallest of the flightless bird group, ratites. However, their eggs are the largest relative to body weight of any existing bird. To put this into perspective, the average kiwi weighs just 2500g and an average kiwi egg weighs a massive 371g. This is 15% of a kiwi’s body weight.
7XbZ TIL that Yukon Cornelius, the prospector from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, wasn’t searching for “silver and gold” but a peppermint mine.
JMLv TIL Actor James Stewart was also a poet. Once, while on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, he read a poem called “Beau” that he had written about his dog. By the end, Carson had started crying.
6Eda7 TIL Magdalena Solis, a Mexican prostitute was paid to imitate an Incan goddess as part of a scam. She began to believe she was a goddess so she took over the cult and began sacrificing her followers.