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

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6E9BY TIL White Tailed Sea Eagles went extinct in Scotland in 1916 due to hunting and egg collecting. In 1975 a breeding pair from Norway were re-introduced and in 2006 the 200th Sea Eagle egg hatched on the Isle of Skye.
xVeV1 TIL Medical errors kill more Americans every year than guns, cars and alcohol combined.
4XKg5 TIL that the "Where do we go now?" ending to Guns N Roses 'Sweet Child O' Mine' was born from the band not knowing how to finish that part of the song.
OGEL1 TIL when Tim Berners-Lee proposed what later became the WWW, his superior noted it as „vague but exciting“
E1YBP TIL Naked mole rats defy the biological law of aging - They rarely get cancer, are resistant to some types of pain, and can survive up to 18 minutes without oxygen. But perhaps their greatest feat, a new paper suggests, is that they don't age. Naked mole-rat mortality rates do not increase with age.