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TIL Mantis Shrimp have the most complex visual system ever discovered.

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neODY TIL the bluefin tuna is one of the fastest accelerating fish reaching a maximum of 3.27 G, or approximately 32 ms^-2. It would reach a speed of 144 mph if the tuna did it for 2 seconds. That's faster than any car. The bluefin tuna's top speed is roughly 44 mph.
D1WVr TIL that a lot of the Marvel graphics and end credits text crawl was made by a studio whose artists are on the autism spectrum.
Ej0o TIL hand grenades got their name from the French word for pomegranate
M7y0b TIL, like the "dearly departed," ancient Egyptians referred to their dead as "Westeners." The west bank of the Nile was considered the land of the dead most likely because the sun sets in west with the living on the east. Osiris, the God of the dead, is called Lord of the West.
0dbEy TIL that the pseudo-historical Frankish king Clovis’ name is derived from the Germanic "Hlodowig" meaning "Famous Warrior", which in turn has descendants such as Louis and Ludwig