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TIL eyes of Arctic reindeer change color through the seasons from gold to blue

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9XjD TIL the word Rebel comes from the Latin verb Rebello, meaning “I renew war.”
yyl8 TIL that the Playstation’s buttons have meanings. The triangle refers to the player’s view looking forward, square refers to menus or maps, and the circle and X represent Yes and No. The creator had hoped that other people would see these icons as such, and use them for their original propose.
b6XJ7 TIL that there's a species of fungi, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, commonly known as the "zombie ant fungus," which infects ants and manipulates their behavio
g87A TIL that the CIA secretly spiked the bread from a bakery in the French village of Pont-Saint-Esprit with enormous quantities of LSD as part of its cold war mind-control experiments.
5rmk TIL that a shot in Hannibal of a flayed naked couple was unacceptable to NBC due to the fact that their butts were visible. As a compromise, the director offered to fill their buttcracks with blood to make the shot less offensive. NBC agreed