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TIL: the eye may have evolved, independently, as many as 40 times

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GALGJ TIL that Tarrare, a man living in the 18th century, had a bizarre endless appetite. He ate a meal made for 15 people in one sitting, live puppies, cats and snakes and it got so bad while hospitalised he attempted to eat corpses from the morgue, patient's blood and a suspected one year old toddler
9wA6Q TIL that physicist Lawrence Langer took a nap on the Little Boy nuclear bomb. It was the only "place where there was room to lie down" while he was keeping the curious away from the bomb the night before the Enola Gay's bombing run.
ygVp TIL Ella Fitzgerald worked for the mafia, got sent to boarding school, ran away, and was living on the streets when she debuted at the Apollo Theater… all by the age of 17.
e0kLg TIL Black Couturier Ann Lowe Designed Jackie Kennedy's Wedding Dress
R57O6 TIL that sleeping babies who are dropped from a height will spread eagle to break their fall. This is called the Palmar reflex and is evidence to show that humans were once tree-dwellers.